Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research. Vol. 16 Issue 2

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    Bringing it all together online: Performance, outreach, and education. The model of the German Theater Project at Indiana University
    (Department of German, University College Cork, 2022) Wuensch, Juliane; Morais, Nina; Bolter, David
    Every year, the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University hosts a theater project for high school students from across the state. 2021 was the 8th consecutive successful year of the festival, and the second time it was held online. The main incentive of the project is to give German students of all levels a creative way to engage with the language through performance. In our article, we explore how to move the festival to a digital space during the pandemic, as well as how the project is organized in general. We write about difficulties and successes with the format, and show examples of student projects and educational workshops. The festival has thrived as an outreach program for the department, attracting more and more learners to German. Even though the project was switched to an online format, every year, an increasing number of high school students enthusiastically participate and use it as an outlet to show their love for language, culture, and performance.
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    Potenziale digitaler Medien für das szenische Lernen am Beispiel von StoryboardThat. Ein Praxisbericht
    (Department of German, University College Cork, 2022) Lawida, Cedric
    Digitale Medien prägen unseren Alltag und verändern durch ihre Eigenschaften Kulturtechniken wie bspw. das Lesen maßgeblich (Wampfler & Krommer, 2019). Die Digitalität nimmt auch Einfluss auf die Kunstform des Theaters: So sind digitale Medien wie Online-Rollenspiele (z. B. Nellhaus, 2017) oder soziale Netzwerke (z. B. Lonergan, 2015) von theatralen Elementen geprägt, die das Potenzial eröffnen, das Konzept des Theaters zu erweitern und damit starre Grenzen zwischen Medien und verschiedenen Kunstformen verschwimmen zu lassen. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich vor diesem Hintergrund mit den Möglichkeiten „neue[r] Formen des Unterrichtens“ (Eickelmann & Gerick, 2017, S. 158), die digitale Medien für das szenische Lernen ermöglichen. Auf Grundlage praktischer Erfahrungen in einer Unterrichtseinheit zum Drama „Nathan der Weise“ im Fernunterricht eines Oberstufenkurses wird anhand des Tools StoryboardThat zur Gestaltung von Comics aufgezeigt, wie es durch seine spezifischen digitalen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten Aspekte szenischen Lernens ermöglichen kann. Dabei wird deutlich, dass starre Grenzziehungen zwischen den etablierten Kunstformen Comic und Theater durch Spezifika der Digitalität hinterfragt werden können und insbesondere Potenziale für die Individualisierung und Binnendifferenzierung im Unterricht bereithalten.
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    Teaching and learning online through performing arts. Puppetry as a pedagogical tool in higher education
    (Department of German, University College Cork, 2022) Kloetzer, Laure; Tau, Ramiro
    Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a Swiss university course called “Psychology and Migration” had to move online over the Spring semester 2021. In this course, Psychology and Education students learn about the sociocultural considerations of migration, through a theoretical, personal and artistic exploration of the subjective experience of migration, based on performing arts. As part of the main pedagogical strategies, students are invited to collectively create a short theatre play based on some selected literary texts. Under the conditions imposed by the pandemic, puppetry arts were chosen as a new tool for distance-learning. Collaborating with theatre professionals, the students created a short play, and performed it online using sock puppets, image theatre or object theatre. Using data collected during the course (video recordings of online sessions and students’ diaries), this article explores the critical process of reduction and expansion, and the (potentially) productive tensions that the course creates. It analyses two main appropriation modes for course students: in adaptative appropriation, students aim to reduce these tensions by adapting to the perceived expectations of teachers; in transformative appropriation, students creatively use possibilities offered by the course to conduct a personal exploration, integrating theories with their own experiences and questions.
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    Teaching tool codified gestures - Can more people learn more? Experiences with the Earth Speakr app from digital teacher training
    (Department of German, University College Cork, 2022) Janzen-Ulbricht, Natasha
    During spring of the academic year 2020-2021, the English Didactics department of the Freie Universität Berlin offered a seminar on drama pedagogy. Given the pandemic and a syllabus which promised future teachers ‘teaching through actual classroom practice’ it was decided to take the in-person sessions between university students and grade six students online. The result of these collaborative drama lab sessions were Earth Speakr messages which, after being practiced online, were recorded in person at school in the Earth Speakr app by the English teacher, a university student assistant and the course instructor. Once uploaded, these messages become part of the global Earth Speakr artwork initiated by the artist and climate activist Olafur Eliasson. This article lays out some of the parameters, contexts and challenges of the sessions. These are complemented by individual reflections as well as outstanding questions for further research. Linguistic actions used in performative teaching, such as acting during an online guessing game or using gestures to practice pronouncing a word can have transformative effects. Even during pandemic times, there is evidence that these experiences can help learners and teachers to connect and find their own place in the social worlds they move in.
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    Performativer Fernunterricht aus der Perspektive angehender DaF-Lehrender. Eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
    (Department of German, University College Cork, 2022) Frei, Georgina; Rančić, Olivera
    In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie angehende DaF-Lehrende ihre Lernerfahrungen im performativen Online-Workshop bewerten. Zu diesem Zweck wurden verschiedene Drama-Aktivitäten per Videokonferenz mit Studierenden aus Deutschland und Serbien im Rahmen von Lehrveranstaltungen durchgeführt. Am Ende des Sommersemesters 2021 wurden sieben Studierende einzeln interviewt. Die leitfadengestützten Interviews wurden nach der zusammenfassenden Inhaltsanalyse von Mayring (2010) qualitativ ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass durch einen dramapädagogischen Ansatz Unterrichtsatmosphäre, Interaktion, Kommunikation, soziale Distanz und Lernmotivation optimiert sowie Sprechangst und Hemmungen abgebaut werden können.