Dr. Foram Bhukhanwala and Dr. Kim Dean of the School of Education worked with recent graduate Maryellen Troyer to present a paper at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Their paper, “Beyond the Student Teaching Seminar: Examining Transformative Learning through Arts-Based Approaches” examined how critical performance pedagogies—such as Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed—support pre-service teachers in forming new frames of references through the processes of defining, redefining, and imagining new possibilities.