Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning

Chris McRae is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, USA, where he teaches courses in Performance Studies. He is the author of Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research and several essays on music, pedagogy, and listening.Aubrey Huber is an instructor and Director of Public Speaking in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, USA, where she teaches courses in Performance Studies and Pedagogy.

“Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning: A Practice Session for Pedagogy offers a jolt of inspiration for teachers, artists, creative practitioners, activists, and students committed to pedagogical processes and educational spaces as potentially transformative realms. … This book should appeal to scholar-artists, activists, teachers-in-training, arts facilitators, and graduate and undergraduate students invested in social justice-based teaching and learning, particularly in the fields of performance studies, communication, education, cultural studies, theater, art, music, and creative writing.” (Deanna B. Shoemaker, Textand Performance Quarterly, January 28, 2021)

• Chapter 1. Practice Space.- Chapter 2. Performance and Research.- Chapter 3. Music and Routine.- Chapter 4. Crafting Pictures and Reflexivity.- Chapter 5. Writing and Experimentation.- Chapter 6. Future Sessions.