Using Readers’ Theater for Building Students’ Motivation in Learning Literature

Readers theater productions are meaningful expressions of creative pedagogy in higher education. This article presents the script of a readers theater called Identify This… A Readers Theater of Women's Voices, which was researched, written, and produced by undergraduate and graduate students in a women's studies class called Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender. Section one of the article reproduces the script of Identify This that was based on life history interviews with a diverse selection of women to illustrate intersectional identities. Section two briefly describes the essential elements of the process we used to create and perform Identify This.

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Some of the benefits of readers theater participation for second‐grade title I students

Reading Research and Instruction ◽

10.1080/19388079909558312 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 71-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Sandra K. Millin ◽

Steven D. Rinehart

Keyword(s):

Title I ◽

Second Grade ◽

Readers Theater

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Using Readers Theater as a Facilitator in Elementary School English Training

Journal of Education and Learning ◽

10.5539/jel.v4n2p43 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ya-Fen Lin

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Readers Theater ◽

English Training

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Nurturing Emergent Readers Through Readers Theater

Early Childhood Education Journal ◽

10.1007/s10643-006-0089-8 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 33 (5) ◽

pp. 317-323 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Kelli Jo Kerry Moran

Keyword(s):

Emergent Readers ◽

Readers Theater

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Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater

International Review of Qualitative Research ◽

10.1177/1940844720939048 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 194084472093904

Author(s):

Leslie Rebecca Bloom ◽

Bonnie Breyer ◽

Chrissy Hoffman ◽

Jocelyn Izaguirre-Zavala ◽

Walter Jones ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Experiential Learning ◽

Gender Studies ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Women's And Gender Studies ◽

Readers Theater ◽

And Gender ◽

New Generation ◽

Women’S And Gender Studies

This article presents the script of Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater that was researched, written, and presented by students in a women’s and gender studies (WGS) class called “Action: Intersections and Coalitions.” Based on qualitative interviews, the script illustrates six respondents’ perspectives on their activism and explores their backgrounds and intersectional identities in relation to these. The readers theater explores how activism and identity intersect and what that means for those engaged in activism. The article concludes with a discussion about the meanings that doing this project in a feminist experiential learning course had for the WGS students involved and how such experiences contribute to growing a much-needed new generation of qualitative researchers dedicated to social justice.

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Readers theater bibliography: Supplement and up‐date

Central States Speech Journal ◽

10.1080/10510977609367911 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 320-321

Author(s):

Susan A. Hunt

Keyword(s):

Readers Theater

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The power of Readers Theater: from reading to writing

ELT Journal ◽

10.1093/elt/54.4.354 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 354-361 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

J. Liu

Keyword(s):

Readers Theater

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Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

10.1093/oso/9780190467876.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Comparative Literature ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Readers Theater ◽

Hedda Gabler ◽

European Philosophy ◽

Newly Married ◽

Theater Audiences

Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other topics of an existential and philosophical kind. It is no surprise that Ibsen’s work has gained the attention of philosophically minded readers from Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Freud, to Adorno, Cavell, and beyond. Once staged at avant-garde theaters in Paris, London, and Berlin, Ibsen is now a global phenomenon. The enigmatic character of Hedda Gabler remains intriguing to ever-new generations of actors, audiences, and readers. Through ten newly commissioned chapters written by leading voices in the fields of drama studies, European philosophy, Scandinavian studies, and comparative literature, this volume brings out the philosophical resonances of Hedda Gabler in particular and Ibsen’s drama more broadly.

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