CALL FOR PAPERS

Pedagogy Focus Group

Mid America Theatre Conference

In keeping with the conference theme “Developing a Praxis for Collaboration & Multicultural Diversity” the Pedagogy Focus Group seeks panels, interactive workshops, roundtable discussions, presentations, and papers that address theoretical foundations and practices engaging diversity in the classroom, rehearsal process, as they pertain to faculty/student relationships or collaboration among directors, designers, mentors/mentees or colleagues. Topics may include but are not limited to best practices in creating diverse syllabi in all areas of theatre (Introductory Courses, Theatre History and Literature, Playwriting, Design, Directing, Theatre for Youth…); specific exercises that point to diversity, interdisciplinarity and/or collaboration; strategies for foregrounding diversity in play selection; and even faculty or student orientations. Pedagogy is not limited to “teaching tips” or “classroom behaviors”; it embraces all aspects of teaching in the broadest sense. Deadline for submission is November 14, 2005.

Please submit 250 word (max) abstracts to Pedagogy Symposium Chairs:

Anne Fletcher Kirsten Ogden
work (618) 453-7594 work (909) 593-3511 ext. 4363
Email: afletch@siu.edu Email: monica8812@aol.com or

Mail Code 6608 kogden@ulv.edu
Theater Dept. Miller Hall
Southern Illinois University Carbondale University of La Verne
Carbondale, IL 62901 1950 Third Street
La Verne, CA 91750

ALSO: Submit your 1-page Classroom Activity or Assignment to MATC’s Pedagogy Papers. Your 1-page submission can highlight an excellent teaching practice, a particularly useful classroom strategy, a unit-outline or assignment, a writing exercise or an acting assignment, or a paper topic or use of technology. MATC Pedagogy Papers can focus on any aspect of teaching theater, from the rehearsal process and the acting or design aspects of theater to dramaturgy, theater history or introductory courses. All papers will be published electronically onto Pedagogy Papers CD-Rom for conference attendees.