"I'm Gonna Use It to Tell You:" Exploring Narratives of Adolescent Identity Through Theatre
by
 
Grandi, Gina L., author.

Title
"I'm Gonna Use It to Tell You:" Exploring Narratives of Adolescent Identity Through Theatre

Author
Grandi, Gina L., author.

ISBN
9780438004757

Personal Author
Grandi, Gina L., author.

Physical Description
1 electronic resource (346 pages)

General Note
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
 
Advisors: Nancy Smithner Committee members: Joseph McDonald; Elizabeth Norman.

Abstract
For seven weeks, I worked with thirteen at-risk high school girls to explore issues of identity through a devised theatre performance. My intent was to examine the ways arts-based research might provide more insight into narratives of adolescent identity than traditional qualitative methods. Throughout the process, I found evidence that working through theatre provided a space in which the traditional researcher/participant relationship was disrupted and the girls I worked with felt more comfortable expressing their uncensored thoughts and opinions. Additional findings include insight into the ways this group of girls constructed and expressed their identities and understood their own power and agency.

Local Note
School code: 0146

Subject Term
Theater.
 
Educational sociology.
 
Education.

Added Corporate Author
New York University. Music and Performing Arts Professions.

Electronic Access
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10814682


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