Dramatic Activities and Workers' Education at Highlander Folk School 1932-1942
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu15664630666072742021-08-03T07:12:44Z Dramatic Activities and Workers' Education at Highlander Folk School 1932-1942 Petty, Anne W. Theater This research examined the dramatic activities conducted for and by resident students at Highlander Folk School, a private independent institution in Monteagle, Tennessee, between 1932 and 1942. Highlander's major objectives were to help meet the current needs of worker-students and of a developing southern labor movement and to prepare the worker-students to formulate and execute actions which would effectively meet their future needs. The dramatics program reflects the flexibility inherent in these objectives in the diversity of dramatic activities and variety of immediate goals evidenced over the ten-year period. The purpose of all Highlander dramatic activities, however, was to educate, for the present and future. Since preliminary research revealed a significant similarity between Highlander's educational philosophy and theory and that of John Dewey, relevant aspects of Dewey's philosophy and theory were utilized to examine and explain Highlander's program. Dramatic activities at Highlander Folk School were an organic part of the school's curriculum because their methods of implementation were determined by basic philosophical and theoretical educational concepts. Drama, a cultural approach to education, was theoretically a means of educational experience. The results of this research indicate dramatic activities provided students with two types of experience: one which led to a greater understanding of subject matter, and, at one time, one which gave them the opportunity to gain an implicit understanding of basic principles of effective and efficient problemsolving. This latter type of experience occurred when worker-students improvised original plays because this act is equivalent to solving a problem, as efficiently and effectively as possible, as defined by John Dewey. 1979 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066607274 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066607274 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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