Author Joe Winston, 羅家玉 Chia-yu Lo, 王笑迪 Xiao-di Wang
Email J.A.winston@warwick.ac.uk
Affiliation Warwick University, United Kingdom
Article Language English

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Winston, J., Lo, C. Y.,  Wang, X. D. (2010). ‘Being in the State of Crossing’: Drama Education and Transnational Space. The Journal of Drama and Theatre Education in Asia. 1, 7-24.

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Abstract

One of the results of globalisation is that increasing numbers of students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds come together to learn in one space. This article theorises an ethical approach to this challenge for drama educators, drawing principally on theories of transnational fiction (Stephen Clingman)(1), cosmopolitan ethics (Kwame Anthony Appiah)(2) and cultural understandings of space (Doreen Massey)(3). The central metaphor of drama as a means for ‘navigating boundaries’, it argues, is more politically apt if less ‘sexy’ than Giroux’s more commonly cited metaphor of ‘border crossing’. The relationship between this theory and an ethical drama praxis is illustrated by examples drawn from work carried out by two Asian postgraduate students currently studying at the University of Warwick.

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