Managing to Be Different

The Boal-Freire Nexus: Rehearsing Praxis, Imagining Liberation in Bilingual Teacher Education

“…Examples of Forum Theater as a transformative tool in education are many: with pre and in-service teachers (Cockrell, Placier, Burgoyne, Welch, & Cockrell, 2002;Rymes et al, 2008;Scapp, 2006,), after-school programs (Zwerling, 2008), at schools (Osterlind, 2008;Sanders, 2005;Schaedler, 2010), and at university level with faculty and staff (Brown & Gillespie, 1999;Scapp, 2006). Beyond that, Forum Theater has been used in different organizations concerned with human rights issues, poor communities, prisons, street children, mental health advocates, unions, immigrant rights' movements against violence, classism, sexism, racism, discrimination around the world (Picher, 2007).…”