Prepared by Haiwang Yuan with Gail Edbers, Meredith Smith, Rob Withers, Bob Fernekes, Amy Wallace and other CAC members

Librarians who teach are always “on stage.”  The ability to conduct effective classes depends on content as well as on how teaching librarians present themselves before their students. What can they learn from the theatrical professions to enhance their teaching?  This bibliography of selected journal articles, books, Web sites, and other media, along with that of the LIRT Continuing Education Committee’s, focuses on ways to improve library instruction through better performance skills.
 
 

Adams, Colin. “Teaching as Performance Art: How NOT to excite students.” LaCEPT Teachers Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Jan. 31, 1997.

Burns, Morris U. and Porter S. Woods. Teacher as Actor. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1992.

Friedman, Alan.  "The Teacher as Actor."  The National Teaching & Learning Forum, 4.2 (1995).

Greenberg, Ellen and Miller, Paddy. “The Player and the Professor: Theatrical Techniques in Teaching” The Player and the Professor, at <http://web.iese.edu/pmiller/The_player_and_the_prof.html>, 2000.

Greene, Carol A. “Ventriloquism in the Classroom.” Arts in Classroom, at <http://www.hooked.net/users/jpgreene/vent/begin.html>, 2000.

Harrison-Pepper, Sally.  "Dramas of Persuasion: Utilizing Performance in the Classroom."  The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 2 (1991).

Javidi, Manoochehr M.; Downs, Valerie C.; Nussbaum, Jon F. “A comparative analysis of teachers' use of dramatic style behaviors at higher and secondary educational levels.” Communication Education. 37.4 (1988): pp. 278-288.

Jetsmark, Torben. The dramatic body: an introduction to physical characterization. Winnipeg: Blizzard Pub., 1992

Lama Jarudi. “Academics Learn Dramatics From A.R.T.'s Houfek” The Harvard University Gazette, at <http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/03.25/teaching.html>, 2000.

Morgan-Fleming, Barbara. “Teaching as performance: connections between folklore and
National Endowment for the Arts. The Theater and Children,” at <http://npin.org/library/pre1998/n00220/n00220.html>, 2000.

NEA Higher Education: Advocate Online - Thriving in Academe, at <http://helpfrom.nea.org/he/advo99/advo9910/thriving.html>,  2000.

Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults, at <http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/drama.htm>, 2000.

Tauber, Robert T. and Mester, Cathy Sargent.  Acting Lessons for Teachers: Using Performance Skills in the Classroom.  Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994.

Tauber, Robert T.; Mester, Cathy Sargent. “Classroom management.” Educational Administration Abstracts 28.4 (1993): 442.

“Teaching as Performance.” NEA Higher Education: Advocate Online - Issues to Consider, at <http://helpfrom.nea.org/he/advo99/advo9910/issues.html>, 2000.

Tony Grasha. "How to Become an Oscar Winning Teacher." October 31, 1997.  (Video and Resource Material).

LIRT News, September 2000. Volume 23, number 1.
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