Theatre and drama education and populism : the ensemble ‘family’ as a space for dialogic empathy and civic care

This article, understanding populism as an essentially undemocratic ideology, argues that the pro‐social theatre education approach of ensemble pedagogy can offer a model of educational practice which counters these anti‐democratic rhetorics by creating a shared space for the enactment of empathetic discourse. Via an ethnography of the UK Shakespeare Schools Foundation festival project, the notion of the theatre education ensemble ‘family’ as a model of civic caring is offered as an alternative, feminist ‘care perspective’ on civic and political rhetorics, in contrast to the patriarchal ‘justice perspectives’ which facilitate the reductive anti‐democratic rhetorics of populism. Thus, this article concludes that ensemble approaches to theatre education, viewed through this feminist pedagogy lens, hold rich potential for developing learners’ capacity to resist populism and act in socially hopeful ways

THE EFFECT OF INTRAVENOUSLY ADMINISTERED 6063, THE CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITOR, 2-ACETYLAMINO-1,3,4-THIADIAZOLE-5-SULFONAMIDE, ON FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES IN NORMAL SUBJECTS AND PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

Many of the clinical features of congestive heart failure are determined by the abnormal accumula-tion of water in the extracellular space, an event largely dependent upon the abnormal renal reten-tion of sodium. Although there is a lack of knowl-edge of the exact mechanism responsible for this abnormality in renal excretion, it is well known that agents that enhance the excretion of sodium are valuable in the treatment of heart failure. The normal kidney plays an important part in preventing the sodium depletion of body fluids and maintaining the normal range of pH of the blood. This is accomplished by the tubular reabsorption of almost all the sodium which is filtered through the glomerulus and the conversion of the alkalin