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Learning to fly: The knowledge const...

Hanley, Mary Stone.

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Learning to fly: The knowledge construction of African American adolescents through drama.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Learning to fly: The knowledge construction of African American adolescents through drama./
Author:	Hanley, Mary Stone.
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-01, Section: A, page: 0048.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-01A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9916664
ISBN:	9780599155343

Learning to fly: The knowledge construction of African American adolescents through drama.
Hanley, Mary Stone.

Learning to fly: The knowledge construction of African American adolescents through drama. - 201 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-01, Section: A, page: 0048.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1998.

The dominant literature on African American student academic achievement points to deficiencies in African American culture as the source of student difficulties. Furthermore, the media representations of today's youth are often violence prone and drug ridden, or lazy, aimless, slackers. But, in actuality, who are today's African American youth? What is the spectrum of their thinking? What do they have to say about themselves? How can what they might say help to inform educational perspectives on learning and education? The focus of this qualitative research project is 20 African American middle school students involved in a 10 week drama project for two hours per day. They learned acting and improvisational techniques and theater games, participated in the creation of a play, then rehearsed and performed the play for their family, peers, and community members. Data were gathered throughout the project from interviews, observations, improvisations, and reflective writings, which provided a background for an in-depth study of the meaning-making of these African American adolescents. The findings confirmed the influence of African American culture, mass culture, and popular culture on their thinking, as well as gender and socioeconomic status as major factors in knowledge construction. Additionally, agency, empowerment, resistance, alienation, imagination, risk-taking, and the need for respect emerged as dynamic processes active in the participants' meaning-making.

ISBN: 9780599155343Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Learning to fly: The knowledge construction of African American adolescents through drama.
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