The practice of applied puppetry: antecedents and tropes

Smith, Matt

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“…Used in these ways, a puppet becomes a transactional object through which a person can express themselves, engage in shared decision-making and enhance their sense of agency within healthcare contexts. While these approaches have clear benefits, we argue that a more 'translational' model of applied puppetry, such as those suggested by Smith (2015) or Wiame (2016b), may be more effective for PCN pedagogy, particularly considering the importance of the concept of personhood.…”

Section: Personhood and Transactional Puppets In Srpmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Numerous research projects involving drama-based interventions in nursing education have called for such a step (Arveklev et al 2018: 63;McAllister et al 2013b: 568). One possible way to address this call may be to animate medical mannequins through applied puppetry techniques (Smith 2015).…”

Section: Personhood and Transactional Puppets In Srpmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To provide context, the paper will begin with a brief overview of how puppetry is generally applied in healthcare training. After this, we will describe an interdisciplinary research project at Ulster University (UU) that teaches basic puppetry skills to nursing students in order to animate the mannequins used in SRP assessment and so moves the practice towards what Matt Smith (2015) has dubbed "applied puppetry". To extend on this project, elements of this application of puppetry will be theorised and suggestions for developing this innovative practice will be provided as a conclusion.…”

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‘Breath, Belief, Focus, Touch’: Applied puppetry in simulated role-play for person-centred nursing education

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Jennings

2020

Applied Theatre Research

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As a subject area that sustains itself on the productive tension between human and non-human agency, applied puppetry is a pragmatic and compelling approach to considering the role of objects in an anthropocentric world. In health care, mannequins play the role of simulated patients. Most often, they simply stand in for the body of the patient. However, this misses the potential that the materiality of these objects holds when considered through applied puppetry terms. This article examines examples of puppetry used in simulated role-play (SRP) for training and assessment, including a specific project involving applied puppetry with person-centred nursing (PCN) students at Ulster University (UU). It attempts to theorize how, when used in this way, applied puppetry is a metaphorical and translational act of anthropomorphism – a process by which an object can ‘become’ more than a thing. In this context, we seek to define a practice in which a mannequin fulfils its potential as a puppet-patient in SRP for PCN students.

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Section: Personhood and Transactional Puppets In Srpmentioning

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‘Breath, Belief, Focus, Touch’: Applied puppetry in simulated role-play for person-centred nursing education

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2020

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“…hosted meetings and talks for puppetry practitioners working in education, with early years children, with people with special needs and in healthcare contexts; Jovanovic and Cariad Astles presented the events as meetings of 'applied puppetry practitioners'. The term later became more widely used following Matt Smith's discussions about its definition and purposes (Smith 2014;2015). This volume, therefore, aims to redress this paucity of existing literature and provide insights into two specific areas: firstly, to consider and analyse the widespread and excellent practices and approaches carried out by puppeteers, healthcare workers, therapists and related professions.…”

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Journal of Applied Arts &Amp; Health

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In 2016, Emma Fisher proposed to the UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette)Research Commission a symposium on the themes of puppetry i , disability, health and wellbeing. The symposium was supported by the UNIMA Research Commission (see the essay about the UNIMA Research Commission later in this volume) and came to be titled The Broken Puppet symposium. The title 'Broken Puppet' celebrates the deconstruction of the puppet as a representation of the human body, rather than a constructed, idealised, commodified, or 'perfect' representation of what is considered the 'norm', thus bringing attention to the 'otherness' of both the puppet and the disabled body. Amongst its aims we wished to challenge what Patrick McElvey refers to as 'compulsory non-disability', wherein the abled body is presumed to be the norm (McElvey 2019: 69 -89). The symposium further wished to draw attention to the specific ways in which puppetry can and does function within contexts of health and wellbeing and within healthcare itself, and to examine these functions through attention to the frameworks that it enables and the approaches taken by practitioners and scholars of puppetry. Puppets are historically and traditionally connected with acts of healing, as described by Henryk Jurkowski and Jaček Pawlik (Jurkowski and Pawlik 2009:589 -94) and Darren-Jon Ashmore (Ashmore 2007); a considerable number of practitioners across the world today work with puppets in healthcare settings to provide therapeutic experiences and to enable communication, but these practices, and research connected to these practices, has been little explored in academic writing. The first symposium was therefore groundbreaking in its field, offering the space for rigorous interrogation of these models of practice and thinking. The first symposium met with enthusiasm as the first forum for these discussions of its kind, and was therefore followed by two further symposia, each a year apart; the details of these are discussed later within this volume, in the 'reviews' section.

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Exploring the Terrain of Drama and Nursing

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2024

Applied Drama and Person-Centred Nursing

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The practice of applied puppetry: antecedents and tropes

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‘Breath, Belief, Focus, Touch’: Applied puppetry in simulated role-play for person-centred nursing education

‘Breath, Belief, Focus, Touch’: Applied puppetry in simulated role-play for person-centred nursing education

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Exploring the Terrain of Drama and Nursing

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