[DOWNLOAD] "Holistic Shakespeare: An Experimental Learning Approach" by Debra Charlton ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Holistic Shakespeare: An Experimental Learning Approach
- Author : Debra Charlton
- Release Date : January 05, 2013
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1146 KB
Description
The standard analytical approach to teaching Shakespeare does not tend to help
students understand the theatricality of the BardÃs plays and can leave them with an
overly dry, disconnected view of Shakespeare. Designed to address this problem, Holistic
Shakespeare combines analysis with creative learning methods. Holistic Shakespeare acts
as a guide for teachers as well as enabling students to feel as if they are in the stands
of the Globe Theatre actually watching the play. This book is designed to explain the
methodologies and values of the holistic educational model, which is directed toward
whole-brain, integrated, and experiential learning that motivates students to think
deeply about the interlinks between what they learn in the classroom and the significant
moral and ethical questions that impact their everyday lives. Further, in the holistic
Shakespeare classroom, application of these foundational concepts opens up a fertile
pathway that leads students toward a more intimate understanding of how Shakespeare
though tó about himself, his relationships, and his environment. In holistic education,
WHOLENESS (or holism) describes an integrated curricular approach that places value
on the complete learner and cultivates every student Ãs unique potential
to become active, thinking, and caring contributors to the larger world.
Holistic Shakespeare embraces the text Ãs definitive status as a theatrical
script, making performance-based activities an indispensable instructional tool.
Like the exciting creative buzz that pervades the rehearsal room, the holistic learning
environment is active, process-oriented, cooperative, and exploratory, which restores true
ownership of the educational journey to the place where it belongs in the hands of the
student. Performance-based teaching has reinvigorated the Shakespeare classroom in recent
decades.