Performance Theories in Education

Breaking new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education, this volume is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and

Contents: P. McLaren, Foreword. B.K. Alexander, G.L. Anderson, B.P. Gallegos, Introduction: Performance in Education. Part I: Performance and Performativity in Pedagogical Practice.E.L. Pineau, Teaching Is Performance: Reconceptualizing a Problematic Metaphor. B.K. Alexander, Critically Analyzing Pedgagogical Interactions as Performance. J. Hamera, Exposing the Pedagogical Body: Protocols and Tactics. J.T. Warren, Bodily Excess and the Desire for Absence: Whiteness and the Making of (Raced) Educational Subjectivities. Part II: Performance, Power, and the Politics of Identity.B.P. Gallegos, Performing School in the Shadow of Imperialism: A Hybrid (Coyote) Interpretation. D.T. Baszile, When Public Performances Go Awry: Reading the Dynamics of Diversity Through Power, Pedagogy, and Protest on Campus. G. Aleman, Constructing Gay Performances: Regulating Gay Youth in a "Gay-Friendly" High School. L. Urrieta, Jr., "Playing the Game" Versus "Selling Out": Chicanas and Chicanos Relationship to Whitestream Schools. Part III: Policy, Ritual, and Textual Performances.G.L. Anderson, Performing School Reform in the Age of the Political Spectacle. D.E. Foley, Performance Theory and Critical Ethnography: Studying Chicano and Mesquaki Youth. R. Donmoyer, Scientists as Scriptwriters: A Study of Educational Researchers' Influence on Educational Decision Making.