Joi Carr is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Pepperdine University, Seaver College, and serves as the Director of Film Studies and the Director of the Multicultural Theatre Project. She received her PhD in English and film from Claremont Graduate University.

«An innovative, exciting, and energizing study that introduces new models of transdisciplinary and transformative learning through arts based pedagogy. Theater becomes an important site of encounter and discovery of new modes of consciousness as well as new strategies for the classroom.» (Wendy Martin, Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Claremont Graduate University)

• Contents: Encountering Self – Encountering Texts: Rationale and Method – The University: Work Toward Wholeness? (In)Beyond the Classroom: Transformative Learning – Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutics as Framework – «Minority» Literature as Decentering Frame – Praxis Matters: Embodying Texts. Theatre as Method for Encounter – Project Description and Overview – MTP Praxis: Medium for Encounter – Developing Story, Developing Students as Texts – Developing Story: Sample Playwriting – Arts-Based Critical Pedagogy: Strategies for the Classroom – Discovering Through Assessment.

Joi Carr is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Pepperdine University, Seaver College, and serves as the Director of Film Studies and the Director of the Multicultural Theatre Project. She received her PhD in English and film from Claremont Graduate University.

«An innovative, exciting, and energizing study that introduces new models of transdisciplinary and transformative learning through arts based pedagogy. Theater becomes an important site of encounter and discovery of new modes of consciousness as well as new strategies for the classroom.» (Wendy Martin, Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Claremont Graduate University)

• Contents: Encountering Self – Encountering Texts: Rationale and Method – The University: Work Toward Wholeness? (In)Beyond the Classroom: Transformative Learning – Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutics as Framework – «Minority» Literature as Decentering Frame – Praxis Matters: Embodying Texts. Theatre as Method for Encounter – Project Description and Overview – MTP Praxis: Medium for Encounter – Developing Story, Developing Students as Texts – Developing Story: Sample Playwriting – Arts-Based Critical Pedagogy: Strategies for the Classroom – Discovering Through Assessment.

Joi Carr is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at Pepperdine University, Seaver College, and serves as the Director of Film Studies and the Director of the Multicultural Theatre Project. She received her PhD in English and film from Claremont Graduate University.

«An innovative, exciting, and energizing study that introduces new models of transdisciplinary and transformative learning through arts based pedagogy. Theater becomes an important site of encounter and discovery of new modes of consciousness as well as new strategies for the classroom.» (Wendy Martin, Professor of American Literature and American Studies, Claremont Graduate University)

• Contents: Encountering Self – Encountering Texts: Rationale and Method – The University: Work Toward Wholeness? (In)Beyond the Classroom: Transformative Learning – Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutics as Framework – «Minority» Literature as Decentering Frame – Praxis Matters: Embodying Texts. Theatre as Method for Encounter – Project Description and Overview – MTP Praxis: Medium for Encounter – Developing Story, Developing Students as Texts – Developing Story: Sample Playwriting – Arts-Based Critical Pedagogy: Strategies for the Classroom – Discovering Through Assessment.