There and (not quite) back again: A theatre and performance instructional team's journey through COVID-19 in Australia

Hannah Joyce Banks; Carl Walling; Jo Loth

doi:10.1177/14740222221095728

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There and (not quite) back again: A theatre and performance instructional team's journey through COVID-19 in Australia

Hannah Joyce Banks, Carl Walling and Jo Loth

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol.21(3), pp.263-284

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222221095728

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Drama, theatre and performance studies

reflective practice

Australian higher education

online learning communities

blended learning

theatre pedagogy

This article details the journey of a Theatre and Performance team working in Australian higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using reflective practice informed by Social Constructivism, we addressed the dilemmas of building and shifting an online community of learners. Act One considers the unknown as we shifted online, and the new year gave way to a semester of developing solutions for teaching theatre in isolated learning environments. This focused on: peer-to-peer communication; group tasks in solo formats; and mechanisms for support. Act Two details the shift back into face-to-face collaborative learning environments focusing on artistic voice and flexible collaboration. How does one re-establish an ensemble while recognizing potential traumatic experiences? We developed effective pedagogical strategies in response to the crisis and pre-existing fault lines within a theatre curriculum. As the world recovers, we must recognize that the journey taken must inform future practice.

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Title: There and (not quite) back again: A theatre and performance instructional team's journey through COVID-19 in Australia
Authors: Hannah Joyce Banks (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
Carl Walling (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
Jo Loth (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
Publication details: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol.21(3), pp.263-284
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1177/14740222221095728
ISSN: 1741-265X
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99635579202621
Output Type: Journal article

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