Research Projects in Taiwan
Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice
Principal Investigator:
Kathleen Gallagher (OISE, University of Toronto)
Sponsor:
Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Summary:
This project explores whether the experiences of ‘learning-in-relation' and deep listening that emerge in collective theatre-making in the drama classroom can also help participants understand the interrelationships among the environment, society, and culture at a time of ecological and socio-political polarization.
Locations of research:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Athens, Greece
Coventry, West-Midlands, England;
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Youth, Theatre, Radical Hope and the Ethical Imaginary: an intercultural investigation of drama pedagogy, performance and civic engagement
Principal Investigator:
Kathleen Gallagher (OISE, University of Toronto)
Collaborator:
Project: Humanity
International Partners:
StudyHall Educational Foundation; University of Warwick, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Youth Services; National University of Tainan; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Drama/Theatre Education Network.
Sponsor:
Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Summary:
Using a socially engaged and collaborative model of research, the project asks what makes the theatre workshop/classroom a forum of civic engagement in the present as well as an experience that may cultivate civic engagement later in life. Collaborating across universities, schools, theatres and youth community spaces in Toronto (Canada), Lucknow (India), Tainan (Taiwan), Coventry (England) and Athens (Greece), we examine how youth theatre making can cultivate practices, relationships, contrariness, dispositions and values that orient young people towards, and support them in, engaged and full citizenship.
Locations of research:
Tainan, Taiwan; Lucknow, India; Coventry, England; Athens Greece; Toronto, Canada
