Contributor Features
"Learning is often challenging to capture through text alone. For instance (through playbuilding) the diverse perspectives of the participants were able to physically come to life, and allowed for the intangible and/or unvoiced learning to emerge through embodiment and dialogue. As I read and re-read the pre-service teachers' journals, my field notes on the project...what continued to catch my attention was how their collective play and lived experience seemed to increasingly blend over the course of the playbuilding process...they played out their understandings during improvisations, and, in turn, progressively (and likely subconsciously) wrote themselves into the script."
(excerpt from article Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal, CCAHTE, June 2006)
Dr. George Belliveau is an Associate Professor and Graduate Academic Advisor in The Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His areas of research include theatre/drama education, research based theatre, teacher education, Canadian theatre and drama in second language learning. He is currently the Principal investigator, Co-Investigator on projects su ch as "Becoming Pedagogical through A/r/tography in Teacher Education", "Addressing the Role of the Bystander in Bullying"and " Assessing Ethnotheatre as a Form of Educational Research."
George Belliveau is also an Advisory board member for The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP.
