Description: Title: Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training: Sensing Shakespeare Author: Whitfield, Petronilla Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Pages: 218 Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d Product Weight: 1 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781138311817 Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training addresses some of the challenges met by acting students with dyslexia and highlights the abilities demonstrated by individuals with specific learning differences in actor training. The book offers six tested teaching strategies, created from practical and theoretical research investigations with dyslexic acting students, using the methodologies of case study and action research. Utilizing Shakespeare's text as a laboratory of practice and drawing directly from the voices and practical work of the dyslexic students themselves, the book explores: the stress caused by dyslexia and how the teacher might ameliorate it through changes in their practice the theories and discourse surrounding the label of dyslexia the visual, kinaesthetic, and multisensory processing preferences demonstrated by some acting students assessed as dyslexic acting approaches for engaging with Shakespeare's language, enabling those with dyslexia to develop their authentic voice and abilities a grounding of the words and the meaning of the text through embodied cognition, spatial awareness, and epistemic tools Stanislavski's method of units and actions and how it can benefit and obstruct the student with dyslexia when working on Shakespeare Interpretive Mnemonics as a memory support and hermeneutic process, and the use of color and drawing towards an autonomy in live performance This book is a valuable resource for voice and actor training, professional performance, and for those who are curious about emancipatory methods that support difference through humanistic teaching philosophies. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Routledge
Number of Pages: 218 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Teaching Strategies for Neurodiversity and Dyslexia in Actor Training
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Theater / General, People with Disabilities, General, Special Education / Learning Disabilities, Acting & Auditioning
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, Education
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Petronilla Whitfield
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
