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Volume 12 Number 2 / Fall 1991

Otherwise Engaged: Towards a Materialist Pedagogy

Submitted
May 13, 2008
Published
1991-06-01

Abstract

This paper makes some suggestions towards the development of a pedagogy and a curriculum for the teaching of Canadian drama from a materialist perspective in which the pretence of 'proper scholarly detachment' is replaced by an acknowledgement and analysis of the nature of our engagement. This involves interrogating the historical, social, cultural and institutional forces at work in the construction both of curricula and of our own reading lists, in the writing and teaching of histories, and in the interpretation of performance texts. It also involves 'teaching differences' in the classroom, viewing both texts read and their interpreters as historically and otherwise contingent sites of struggle.