Open AccessGrafting and Other Ramifications
Author(s) -
Sherrie Tucker,
Michelle Heffner Hayes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
critical studies in improvisation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1712-0624
DOI - 10.21083/csieci.v13i1.5818
Subject(s) - praxis , improvisation , dance , class (philosophy) , liberal arts education , sociology , visual arts , art , epistemology , philosophy , political science , higher education , law
Beginning in 2008, American studies professor Sherrie Tucker and dance professor Michelle Heffner Hayes developed a series of concurrent course offerings across American Studies and Dance at the University of Kansas. In this collaboratively authored article, Tucker and Hayes reflect on the surprising ramifications of that first grafted class in 2008, and subsequent collaborations, in order to posit a model of improvisational pedagogy of grafting across disciplines that may invigorate research across disciplines in the liberal arts. Tucker and Hayes describe a praxis that motivates teaching and inspires research in a dynamic interactive relationship.