Day 2 - Département de danse - UQAM

Seminar CFP and paper abstracts available at
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2_m5KQa5MklaXlmell1bWl5LU0&usp=sharing
c) Adaptive Pedagogies Fine Arts 103
Seminar Organizers: Barry Freeman (University of Toronto) and James McKinnon (Victoria University
of Wellington). Participants: Joel Benabu (University of Ottawa), Patrick Finn (University of Calgary),
Rebecca Harries (Bishop’s University), Robin C. Whittaker (St. Thomas University).
At CATR 2012, the “Chasm or Crossroads?” seminar brought together a group of scholars based in Canada, the US, and New
Zealand to discuss how to bridge what our colleague Glen Nichols describes as the chasm that has been driven between
teaching and research in the academy.” Each participant committed to carrying out a project designed to link teaching and
research in their classrooms and to participating in an online discussion in the six months leading up to the conference; and at
the conference we shared some of our work with the CATR community. Building on the success of this venture, I propose a
new, improved version for 2013, which will be more structured, more ambitious, and more engaged with scholarship on
teaching and learning.
This seminar seeks productive and innovative ways of reintegrating teaching and research by exploiting the fact that our
discipline—to a much greater extent than most—constitutes not only a field of knowledge to be taught and researched, but
also a medium for both teaching and research. Moreover, it will encourage participants to think reflexively about the innovative
experiments we already when we plan or deliver new material—but which, in the absence of a formal opportunity to reflect and
discuss with colleagues, we often neglect to document, evaluate and disseminate.
As in 2013, participants will focus on building bridges between teaching (and learning) and research in post-secondary
theatre contexts, and will share resources and discuss ideas using a blog. This year, though, we will put more emphasis on
engaging with scholarship on teaching and learning, and on contributing to that research as individuals and as a group. We will
continue to host an open discussion with the CATR community, but we will also focus on developing individual research
outputs that link theatre, teaching, and learning.
4:15pm — break
4:30pm
Closing Remarks
Stephen Johnson (CATR/ACRT President, University of Toronto)
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