Performing Arts as the Pedagogy for Social Practice and Cultural Management

This project proposes revising the current course “Literature and Theatre, ” exploring how to make “theatre practice” the social practice and cultural management field. The course itself will familiarize NCU’s interdisciplinary students with knowledge of theatre production with a step-by-step workshop, in which 7-8 theatre expertise from each department of theatre production, i.e., directing, acting, stage management, lighting, sound and music, stage design will be invited to give a full-scale workshop for a total of 17 classes, plus two full-day intensive stage technology courses. At the end of the class, all students are to team up and present a complete performance of the designated script. The research strategies for this teaching project include, 1) revising the existing pedagogy; 2) executing the newly created and revised “Self-Learning Self-Evaluation” methods to investigate the existing students’ learning performances; and 3) designing questionnaire in order to follow up some previous students learning effects afterward. The ultimate goals for this pedagogical research are not only to cultivate students with knowledge and skills of social practice, and cultural management, the project also aims at empowering students with confidence and methods of self-learning and self-evaluation.