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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Call for Participants: CATR Curated Panel (2016):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Hidden Roles of Theatre in Higher Education: Liberal Arts and University Theatre Programs in Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Over the last couple of years, I have had the privilege of sitting on several program review committees for theatre departments at a variety of universities. Despite vast differences
in size, scope, and curriculum, the majority, including our own at Mount Allison, claim a relationship to “liberal arts” or “liberal education.” Yet, the terms describe hugely different curricula and outcomes, which caused me to wonder what was really being
meant by the “theatre/drama” – “liberal arts/education” associations and how this was affecting student learning. This led me to investigate a bit further and, to my surprise, while I have discovered ample discussion of the role of theatre programs in liberal
arts argued by our American colleagues (Gressler, 2002; Fliotsos & Medford, 2004; Kindelan, 2012 to name only three of many), I have found little on the question from a Canadian perspective.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Discussions of university theatre programs in Canada seem to emphasize ambitions to professional or pre-professional training. Where education and theatre
come into discussions, the focus is on TIE at the primary or secondary levels. All of these contributions are important, but an awful lot of our students come out of theatre programs neither to work professionally in theatre nor to teach in schools. I wonder
if it’s time we started some conversations about how our own university theatre programs are taking up the liberal arts concerns of our institutions and, more importantly, of many of our students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">I would like to invite participants to a panel for the 2016 CATR conference where each would present a brief (10-minute) position paper or observations, followed by a significant
opportunity for round-table and from-the-floor open discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">As way of example, topics/questions to consider might include…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Concepts of “liberal arts/liberal education” as they relate to theatre programs in higher education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Theatre programs and the development of multiple intelligences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">How do theatre courses help students become responsive to social issues & develop social responsibility?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:45.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-27.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The relationship between theatre activities and experiential learning (beyond specifically technical or job-related theatre skills).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:45.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-27.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The role of theatre programs in institutional curriculum development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">How do theatre programs help students become better citizens of the world?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">How do theatre programs develop skills that students need when they seek employment outside the theatrical profession or manage economic opportunities
in the dynamic marketplace of their future?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">What is the evidence that theatre programs teach students to think critically and analytically?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:45.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-27.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">What are the relationships among curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular theatre activities in the formation of “the whole student”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">What is the relationship between theatre arts and the “creative economy”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">How do performance activities create transformative experiences for students?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">How do theatre programs teach creative thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">How do theatre programs develop understanding of the self and others?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Please address any questions or email brief (300-word) proposals for your position paper or observations by January 15, 2016 to Glen Nichols at
</span><a href="mailto:gnichols@mta.ca"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">gnichols@mta.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Glen Nichols<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Director, Drama Studies Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">152 Main Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Sackville, NB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">E4L 1B5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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