A Roadmap to Education: The CRE-ACT Way

by Dorothy Prokes

Overview

A Road Map to Education: The CRE-ACT Way takes an approach to education with an arts based curriculum. This involves not only visual art and music but also dance and drama. Creative drama is used in the classroom as an experiential learning element.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761843818
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	05/16/2009
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Sister Dorothy Prokes, F.S.E has been actively engaged as an educator since 1940 and has personally experienced and struggled with the problematic issues that have risen during the years. She filled positions of instructor (preschool - university), administrator, lecturer, demonstrator, and artist in the schools during this time. Her greatest contribution has been the founding, developing and administering of the Creative Acting program described in this book. She received her doctorate from New York University in Educational Theater.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Section 1: Curtain Raiser
Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Struggle for Control in a Confused World
Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Need for Security and Freedom
Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Proposed Plan of Resolution
Part 5 Section 2: The Production
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: The Setting
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Cast
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Preparation for Performance
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Rehearsal
Part 10 Section 3: The Performance
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Exemplar: The Franciscan CRE-ACT School
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Performance Areas
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Curtain Call
Part 14 Section 4: Implications for the Future
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: The Sequel

Editorial Reviews

Recommended.

Choice Reviews

A Road Map to Education takes you through the CRE-ACT Way! To educate with love, enthusiasm, sincerity, and reverence is the mission and passion of Sister Dorothy Prokes, F.S.E. She brings to her writing an amazing understanding of the 'how-to' and 'why this' , making it such an amazing text to learn the magic of opening students to the process of setting the 'stage' for success and self-discovery.

Sister Francine Cardew

Dr. Sister Dorothy Prokes' A Roadmap to Education: the CRE-ACT Way offers teachers and arts in-education practitioners a "super highway" to help prepare young people to negotiate our unstable and frustrating world. Her plan, the CRE-ACT way, employs both the process of dramatic activity and the creation of theatre production as the basics for the entire elementary-intermediate curriculum. Through her collaborative and invigorating methodology youngsters face the challenges of change and individually propose resolution for group change.

Dr. Nancy Swortzell

Recommended.

January 2010 Choice Reviews

A Road Map to Education takes you through the CRE-ACT Way! To educate with love, enthusiasm, sincerity, and reverence is the mission and passion of Sister Dorothy Prokes, F.S.E. She brings to her writing an amazing understanding of the 'how-to' and 'why this', making it such an amazing text to learn the magic of opening students to the process of setting the 'stage' for success and self-discovery.--Sister Francine Cardew, F.S.E., Director of Education, Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist

Dr. Sister Dorothy Prokes' A Roadmap to Education: the CRE-ACT Way offers teachers and arts in-education practitioners a "super highway" to help prepare young people to negotiate our unstable and frustrating world. Her plan, the CRE-ACT way, employs both the process of dramatic activity and the creation of theatre production as the basics for the entire elementary-intermediate curriculum. Through her collaborative and invigorating methodology youngsters face the challenges of change and individually propose resolution for group change.--Dr. Nancy Swortzell, Retired Professor, Educational Theatre and Director of Study Abroad, New York University, New York

Recommended.--CHOICE, January 2010

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