Community in Motion : Theatre for Development in Africa Hardback
by L. Dale Byam
Part of the Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series series
Hardback
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Africa has internal cultural resources that have positively influenced its development.
Community in Motion explores the relationship between theatre and Freirian pedagogy.
It underscores the urgency of refocusing development strategies on human rather than technical resources by showing how culture has traditionally played an important role in African development, and demonstrates the similarities between traditional African cultural paradigms and Freirian pedagogy. The author describes selected significant Theatre for Development programs in diverse parts of Africa and determines the extent that these programs find congruence with the teachings of Paulo Freire.
Case studies of Botswana, Zambia, Nigeria, and Kenya explore in detail the ongoing work in Zimbabwe, specifically the Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre (ZACT).
ZACT's work is analyzed in the context of Freirian pedagogy in order to highlight the development of a community-based theatre operation that is national in its scope and international in its influences.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/12/1999
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- ISBN:9780897895811
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/12/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780897895811
