Readers Theatre: Theatre of the imagination

Details:

This session aims to show how a creative and inclusive translanguaging space can be developed by incorporating Readers Theatre in a range of subject areas, especially English. This strategy supports reading, writing, listening and speaking and encourages the use of the first language (Dutton et al, 2018, p.47). Participants will be introduced to strategies where stories, fact or fiction, personal or published are developed into a script using all the creative, linguistic and cultural resources which students bring to the text.

Audience: Adult, Secondary, Primary

Presenters:

Robyn Ewing AM is Professor Emerita and Co-Director of the Creativity in Research, Engaging the Arts, Transforming Education, Health and Wellbeing (CREATE) Centre at the University of Sydney. Robyn is passionate about the arts and education and the role quality arts experiences and processes can and should play in creative pedagogy and transforming the curriculum at all levels of education.

Dr Kathy Rushton is an experienced TESOL and classroom teacher working in primary, secondary and tertiary settings and with adults learning English. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Sydney and is interested in the development of language and literacy, especially in culturally and linguistically diverse socio-economically disadvantaged communities.

When:

Term 1 Week 9

Wednesday 26 March 4.00 – 5.00 PM

Where: Online

Cost: $20 members, $30 non-members