Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real

by Kathleen Gallagher

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in an international multi-site project, Why Theatre Matters ties together the issues of urban and arts education...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442626941
• ISBN13: 9781442626942
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"