Education Through Alienation: Elements of Gestaltist Learning Theory in Selected Plays of Bertolt Brecht
Description:
This study explored the relationship between the dramatic and the educational theories developed by Bertolt Brecht and selected twentieth-century theories of pedagogy. A survey of Brecht's life and works revealed that although the stimulus-response theories of the associationist psychologists were inappropriate to Brecht's concepts, the three principal aspects of Gestaltism—perception, insight, and life space, as formulated by Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Lewin—seemed …
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Date:
December 1982
Creator:
Starnes, Ted Duncan