Performance theories in education

About this book

"Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity breaks new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education. It is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and pragmatic lens, can be used to view the processes, procedures, and politics of education. The conceptual framework of the volume is the editors' argument that performance and performativity help to locate and describe repetitive actions plotted within grids of power relationships and social norms that comprise the context of education and schooling.". "With the aim of developing a clearer understanding of the effect, affect, and role of performance in education, this volume provides a crucial starting point for discourse among theorists and teacher practitioners who are interested in understanding and acknowledging the politics to performance and the practices of performative social identities that always and already intervene in the educational endeavor."--BOOK JACKET.