Educating for Peace through Theatrical Arts

<p>This volume illustrates how theatre arts can be used to enact peace education by showcasing the use of theatrical techniques including storytelling testimonial and forum theatre political humor and arts-based pedagogy in diverse formal and non-formal educational contexts across age groups.</p><p>The text presents and discusses how the use of applied theatre especially in conflict-affected areas can be used as an educational response to cultural and structural violence for transformation of relations healing and praxis as local and global peacebuilding. Crucially it bridges performing arts and peace education the latter of which is unfolding in schools and their communities worldwide. With contributors from countries including Northern Ireland Denmark Norway the USA Mexico Japan the Philippines Pakistan Burundi Kenya and South Africa the authors identify theoretical and technical aspects of theatrical performance that support peace through transformation along with embodied and sensorial learning.</p><p>This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in teacher education arts-based learning peace studies and applied theatre that consider practice with child adolescent and adult learners.</p>