| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 94 === Theatre-In-Education (T.I.E) is a unique theatrical experience that encompasses appreciative performances and interactive elements, allowing audiences to intervene in the story/play. This research is deeply concerned with the standpoint of gender equity education to the difference and equity, and it is hoped that through T.I.E. we can study students’ notion towards the gender roles. The methods during this study were hot-seating, role playing, forum theatre, tapping-in, and problem discussions. It is hoped that through T.I.E., we can make a breakthrough in the notions toward gender stereotype, further to understand the changing status of gender equity consciousness for students; and any difficulty and its solving strategy of T.I.E. on gender issues during conducting educational activities. At the end, it will re-examine the arousal state that among the researchers’ and active research participants’ change in attitude towards gender stereotypes.
For the purpose of this research we had selected the Grade 6 students in an elementary school located in Taipei County. Four Actor-teachers and an observer were invited as joint researches for this project. Action research is the main method selected for this research, and 3 performance of T.I.E were performed between the periods of September 2005 to March 2006. There were 5 live observations prior to each performance; the actor-teachers and students each had 3 rehearsals, group discussions, and interviews.
Among various dimensions of the gender stereotypes that were chosen for this research, including: “gender role stereotype”, “sexuality” and ”body imagine” as the core characteristics. It was found that the students:
1) Agreed that boys can play with dolls, but it still need to conduct deeper observation on practice.
2) As for sexuality; most students felt that being sissy and tomboy-like are personal attributes.
3) Female gender role is more flexible and tolerated than male.
4) Awareness that the misconception of slim and fine body types projected in advertisements was stereotypic, and was able to criticize these images.
5) As for body imagine, part of students are able to accept and admire their own individual appearance.
This T.I.E event was conducted under the enthusiastic participation and dedicated learning attitude of the actor-teachers. We achieved in T.I.E discussions on gender issues by crossing different fields of learning, from rehearsals to the final performance, and down to the final review.
This research has also proposed some recommendations toward the school teachers and the school administration that they intend to use the T.I.E. to explore the social issues or further to promote the education of gender equity, but limited by the lack of professional experience from the field of theatre-in-education.
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