Nous pratiquons, donc nous sommes?
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Freeman, John
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Freeman, John. 2013. Nous pratiquons, donc nous sommes?, in Germay, R. and Poirrier, P. (ed), Le théâtre universitaire: Pratiques et expériences. The university theatre: Practice and experience, pp. 127-139, Dijon, France: University of Dijon.
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Le théâtre universitaire: Pratiques et expériences
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We Practice, Therefore Are We? Is part provocation and part confession. Writing from a quarter-century perspective gained in the UK and Australia, its author suggests that practice-led research in university theatre has become problematic in terms of achievement; the ways in which knowledge and understanding are articulated; how ideas of truth are bought and sold; and how research significance is sidestepped as easily as alternative methodologies. In arguing that this leads to a concern with career-orientation that takes lecturers away from face-to face contact with students the chapter exposes ways in which university foci follows funding and research methodologies are reduced to fashion-following rather than fitness for purpose.