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As a K–12 educator and scholar, I am deeply interested in how drama and theatre as pedagogical methods affect change in classrooms and other learning contexts. Through this work, I have repeatedly engaged in conversations and debates around connections between arts-based education, change, and performance.
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McAvoy, M. (2018). What We Left Behind in Our Race to the Top: Education Reform Goes Metaformative. In: Etheridge Woodson, S., Underiner, T. (eds) Theatre, Performance and Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65828-5_25
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