Kelly Hunter

Shakespeare's Heartbeat (eBook, ePUB)

Drama games for children with autism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over ten years, Kelly Hunter worked with children on all points of the autistic spectrum, developing drama games for the specific purpose of combatting autism. These unique games, derived from specific moments in the plays, shed new light on how to teach Shakespeare to children, using the drama as an exploration of how it feels to be alive.

Shakespeare's poetic definitions of seeing, thinking and loving reveal the very processes that children with autism find so difficult to achieve. This book provides an indispensable learning tool for those wishing to encourage children's eye contact and facial expression, improve their spatial awareness and language skills and introduce them to imaginative play.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317601418
• Artikelnr.: 41836236

Autorenporträt

Kelly Hunter is an award-winning actor, director, and educator. As a performer she has worked for over thirty years, notably with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the highly-acclaimed Vesturport. In 2001 she created her own company - Touchstone Shakespeare Theatre - to bring Shakespeare to children with little or no access to the arts. She ran the company for four years, during which time she directed Dreams and Voices, a film which documents her work with autistic children and is available on the Routledge Performance Archive. In 2014 she directed a production of The Tempest for children with autism, which performed in Stratford upon Avon and Columbus Ohio. The show was a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Ohio State University, where her work forms the basis of a longitudinal research study. This research engages the question of whether drama - particularly Shakespeare - can break through the communicative blocks of autism and in particular whether these sensory drama games, known collectively as the Hunter Heartbeat Method can produce long term benefits for children with ASD.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Robin Post
Introduction
Playing the games/Using the book
Part one A Midsummer Night's Dream
Chapter 1 Games to begin
Chapter 2 Fairyland
Chapter 3 Dreams
Chapter 4 The Mechanicals
Chapter 5 The Lovers
Chapter 6 Darkness of night
Part two The Tempest
Chapter 7 Caliban
Chapter 8 Ariel
Chapter 9 Miranda and Ferdinand
Chapter 10 The clowns
Chapter 11 Magic
Chapter 12 Resource for playing with the children
Afterword
Epilogue by Marc Tasse

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Foreword by Robin Post

Introduction

Playing the games/Using the book

Part one A Midsummer Night's Dream

Chapter 1 Games to begin

Chapter 2 Fairyland

Chapter 3 Dreams

Chapter 4 The Mechanicals

Chapter 5 The Lovers

Chapter 6 Darkness of night

Part two The Tempest

Chapter 7 Caliban

Chapter 8 Ariel

Chapter 9 Miranda and Ferdinand

Chapter 10 The clowns

Chapter 11 Magic

Chapter 12 Resource for playing with the children

Afterword

Epilogue by Marc Tasse

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"For me - working in a special school - there is so much material here that is of huge benefit to children who struggle with social interaction. This should be on the shelf of every SEN teacher as there are activities here that would work on many levels for children both verbal and non-verbal, ASD or not." - Lucy Ellen Rix, Teaching Drama

"For me - working in a special school - there is so much material here that is of huge benefit to children who struggle with social interaction. This should be on the shelf of every SEN teacher as there are activities here that would work on many levels for children both verbal and non-verbal, ASD or not." - Lucy Ellen Rix, Teaching Drama