ORCID
Mona Eikel-Pohen: 0000-0002-2704-8368
Document Type
Other
Date
Fall 9-7-2025
Keywords
language learning, German, Form Theater, Augusto Boal, culture, reflective learning, agency
Language
English
Acknowledgements
The first version of this documentation from 2024 was published in German in 2024 as August Boals Forumtheater im Deutschunterricht. GFL German as a Foreign Language. Teaching and Learning German in an Intercultural Context. An Internet Journal for German Studies. http://gfl-journal.de/article/augusto-boals-forumtheater/
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Creative Writing | Education | Fiction | German Language and Literature | Humane Education | Performance Studies | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning | Teacher Education and Professional Development
Description/Abstract
This documentation is the revised and translated version of the 2024 article Augusto Boals Forumtheater im Deutschunterricht (Eikel-Pohen 2024). It features new observations from the second iteration of a Forum Theater project in a GER 202 language and culture class from 2025 and is again based on autoethnographic notes (Rodriguez-Mejia 2023: 71). It documents the revised application of Augusto Boal’s Forum Theater applied to language and cultural teaching in a socially critical, holistic, cooperative, intercultural, and practical way. Boal’s method aims at exposing structural oppression and allows individuals to explore options for action through play. The instructor followed Boal’s model when it aligned with language pedagogy and modified it without compromising its goals where it did not. This documentation does not claim to present formal research but a reflection on teaching practices at the intersection of intercultural language education (Wagner 2019: 9-13) and critical theater pedagogy. It focuses specifically on the value of reflections, gives examples of reflective methods, and delineates reflection practices under formative and summative assessment.
Recommended Citation
Eikel-Pohen, Mona and Eikel-Pohen, Mona, "Augusto Boal’s Forum Theater in Language and Culture Courses A Reflective Documentation" (2025). Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship. 49.
https://surface.syr.edu/lll/49
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