Improvising With and In Higher Education

Luke Perone is a faculty member at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA, where he teaches courses in human development. Luke’s research interests include the power and possibilities of imaginative play, improvisational theater, performance activism, social therapeutics, humanitarian clowning, and socially-engaged arts to create revolutionary opportunities for lifespan learning, development, and community building.

• Chapter 1. Let’s Create New Higher Education Performances (Luke Perone).- Chapter 2. Performing Higher Education: Improv is/as Radical Co-creating (Luke Perone).- Chapter 3. Empowering Life Performer-Learners: Lloyd International Honors College at UNC Greensboro (Eric B. Toler).- Chapter 4. Embracing a “Yes, and…” Philosophy to Engage With Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education (Colin Stewart).- Chapter 5. Improvisation as a Narrative of Faculty & Learner Growth and Development in Higher Education (Krista Longtin).- Chapter 6. Working From the Margins: Changing Our Institutions and Ourselves One “Yes, and…” at a Time (Amy Baldwin).- Chapter 7. Say “Yes, and…” to the Remix: A Practical Philosophical Approach to Meaning Making, Discovery, and Learning in Higher Education (Gwen Lowenheim).-Chapter 8. The Human Side of Mathematics: Using Improv as a Framework for Developing More Meaningful Mathematical Connections (Pedro Morales-Almazan).- Chapter 9. Teaching During the Pandemic: The Art of Creating Class Environments Full of Creativity, Performance, and Technology (Jorge Burciaga-Montoya).- Chapter 10. Creating New Performances of Teaching and Learning (Carrie Lobman).- Chapter 11. Co-creating With and In Lifespan Imaginative Play (Luke Perone).- Chapter 12. Brincadas Project: Playing Towards an Equitable and Just Society (Fernanda Coelho Liberali).- Chapter 13. The End Is in the Beginning - The Book Ensemble.