Inhabiting scopus: Navigating modern controversies with performative approaches in a public speaking course

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dc.contributor.authorSorensen, Lane
dc.contributor.editorPiazzoli, Erikaen
dc.contributor.editorDonnery, Euchariaen
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-02T10:32:25Z
dc.date.available2022-03-02T10:32:25Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractCOLL-P155 is an undergraduate public speaking course in which students give speeches on modern public controversies such as capital punishment, abortion, immigration, etc; in other words, issues for which many might hold a definite – at times inflexible – bias. In order to mitigate such biases, the concept of scopus, moving out of one perspective to inhabit another (Arthos, 2017a: Lecture 11), is situated in the goals of the speech assignments and combined with the theoretical and practical benefits of drama pedagogy as illustrated by Even (2008). Following a description of the speech assignments is a pedagogical reflection of activities that combine scopus and drama pedagogy to get students up and out of their seats in order to act out frames of mind that might embody perspectives drastically different from their own. From encouraging ad-hominem attacks in fictitious arguments about favorite foods to highlight the counterproductive and harmful nature of alienating language, to acting out a Grimm’s fairytale from the villain’s perspective to encourage empathy with an unpopular position, the lessons of open-mindedness and civility emphasized in these performative activities can be transferred to discourse surrounding real-world controversies.en
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dc.identifier.citationSorensen, L. (2017) 'Inhabiting scopus: Navigating modern controversies with performative approaches in a public speaking course', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XI(1), pp. 72-78. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.11.1.6en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.11.1.6
dc.identifier.endpage78
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage72
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12677
dc.identifier.volumeXI
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-11-1-6
dc.rights© 2017, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleInhabiting scopus: Navigating modern controversies with performative approaches in a public speaking courseen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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