Editorial
Seize The Day – Join us in Raising Awareness about the Value of Drama and Theatre Education
National Drama in partnership with the DTEA are asking our members, friends and partners to join in this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Drama and Theatre Education. Run an event during 20 to 27 March 2023 and spread the word through your social media.
Welcome to the National Drama Blog!
The ND Blog is a space for our members, Patrons and Friends to share timely pieces of writing, responses to developments and current affairs in drama education, and perspective pieces. We welcome blog submissions from our members, which can be sent to our Vice Chair: vicechair@nationaldrama.org.uk
Volume 1 Editorial
This inaugural edition of Drama Research presents a broad spectrum of work and thought in articles that examine the multi-faceted nature of drama. Written from a range of international and age-range perspectives, together they reveal ways in which drama engages the mind, body and spirit of all those who participate.
Seize The Day – Join us in Raising Awareness about the Value of Drama and Theatre Education
National Drama in partnership with the DTEA are asking our members, friends and partners to join in this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Drama and Theatre Education. Run an event during 20 to 27 March 2023 and spread the word through your social media.
Welcome to the National Drama Blog!
The ND Blog is a space for our members, Patrons and Friends to share timely pieces of writing, responses to developments and current affairs in drama education, and perspective pieces. We welcome blog submissions from our members, which can be sent to our Vice Chair: vicechair@nationaldrama.org.uk
Volume 1 Editorial
This inaugural edition of Drama Research presents a broad spectrum of work and thought in articles that examine the multi-faceted nature of drama. Written from a range of international and age-range perspectives, together they reveal ways in which drama engages the mind, body and spirit of all those who participate.
Articles
Teacher-in-role as gangster: unity of the acting body and the teaching mind
In this paper I am going to look at an unsatisfactory piece of Teacher-in-Role interaction that I carried out in a story drama about a notorious gangster.
The problem of responsibility: an examination of Bakhtin’s concepts of ‘answerability’ and ‘ethical understanding’, and their importance for process drama in the first years of schooling
This article examines the idea of drama as a dialogic medium in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of ‘responsibility’ and draws on case-study evidence from a small-scale curriculum intervention with a reception class during the course of a school year.
Beyond belonging: the relationship between community and power for urban students of color
This article discusses the results of a pilot study exploring the connection between power and community for urban students.
Exploring the edges of theatre form and moral values through a practical approach to Grand-Guignol
This article will argue that there is much to be learnt by considering how the responses of modern audiences to the plays of the Grand-Guignol are so different from the responses of those who originally flocked to this curious little theatre.
Young minds in action: exploring the use of drama role play for citizenship education
Drama as a learning medium is readily accessible to young children and it recognises the multi-faceted nature of children’s expression through verbal and non-verbal means.
Adults’ work? Process drama in the context of adult learning and creativity
The paper suggests that for adults, creative tensions can emerge around concepts of adulthood and play, social self and fictional role, intellect and imagination and the aesthetics of artful pedagogy.
“Everyone has somewhere they belong, luckily for me I belong in theatre”. Experienced secondary students reflect on their participation in theatre
Experienced secondary students from two Tucson, Arizona, schools completed open-ended questionnaires about their theatre programmes.
Using a ‘drama eye’ to plan an integrated language arts program
An integrated language arts perspective requires that teachers encourage students to use language across the curriculum.
Teacher-in-role as gangster: unity of the acting body and the teaching mind
In this paper I am going to look at an unsatisfactory piece of Teacher-in-Role interaction that I carried out in a story drama about a notorious gangster.
The problem of responsibility: an examination of Bakhtin’s concepts of ‘answerability’ and ‘ethical understanding’, and their importance for process drama in the first years of schooling
This article examines the idea of drama as a dialogic medium in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of ‘responsibility’ and draws on case-study evidence from a small-scale curriculum intervention with a reception class during the course of a school year.
Beyond belonging: the relationship between community and power for urban students of color
This article discusses the results of a pilot study exploring the connection between power and community for urban students.
Exploring the edges of theatre form and moral values through a practical approach to Grand-Guignol
This article will argue that there is much to be learnt by considering how the responses of modern audiences to the plays of the Grand-Guignol are so different from the responses of those who originally flocked to this curious little theatre.
Young minds in action: exploring the use of drama role play for citizenship education
Drama as a learning medium is readily accessible to young children and it recognises the multi-faceted nature of children’s expression through verbal and non-verbal means.
Adults’ work? Process drama in the context of adult learning and creativity
The paper suggests that for adults, creative tensions can emerge around concepts of adulthood and play, social self and fictional role, intellect and imagination and the aesthetics of artful pedagogy.
“Everyone has somewhere they belong, luckily for me I belong in theatre”. Experienced secondary students reflect on their participation in theatre
Experienced secondary students from two Tucson, Arizona, schools completed open-ended questionnaires about their theatre programmes.
Using a ‘drama eye’ to plan an integrated language arts program
An integrated language arts perspective requires that teachers encourage students to use language across the curriculum.
Editorial Board
Seize The Day – Join us in Raising Awareness about the Value of Drama and Theatre Education
National Drama in partnership with the DTEA are asking our members, friends and partners to join in this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Drama and Theatre Education. Run an event during 20 to 27 March 2023 and spread the word through your social media.
Welcome to the National Drama Blog!
The ND Blog is a space for our members, Patrons and Friends to share timely pieces of writing, responses to developments and current affairs in drama education, and perspective pieces. We welcome blog submissions from our members, which can be sent to our Vice Chair: vicechair@nationaldrama.org.uk
Volume 1 Editorial Board
Pamela Bowell
Chris Lawrence
Ruth Sayers
Marie-Jeanne McNaughton
Amanda Kipling
Seize The Day – Join us in Raising Awareness about the Value of Drama and Theatre Education
National Drama in partnership with the DTEA are asking our members, friends and partners to join in this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Drama and Theatre Education. Run an event during 20 to 27 March 2023 and spread the word through your social media.
Welcome to the National Drama Blog!
The ND Blog is a space for our members, Patrons and Friends to share timely pieces of writing, responses to developments and current affairs in drama education, and perspective pieces. We welcome blog submissions from our members, which can be sent to our Vice Chair: vicechair@nationaldrama.org.uk
Volume 1 Editorial Board
Pamela Bowell
Chris Lawrence
Ruth Sayers
Marie-Jeanne McNaughton
Amanda Kipling
Notes on Authors
Seize The Day – Join us in Raising Awareness about the Value of Drama and Theatre Education
National Drama in partnership with the DTEA are asking our members, friends and partners to join in this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Drama and Theatre Education. Run an event during 20 to 27 March 2023 and spread the word through your social media.
Welcome to the National Drama Blog!
The ND Blog is a space for our members, Patrons and Friends to share timely pieces of writing, responses to developments and current affairs in drama education, and perspective pieces. We welcome blog submissions from our members, which can be sent to our Vice Chair: vicechair@nationaldrama.org.uk
Volume 1 Notes on Authors
Viv Aitken is lecturer in drama in education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where she contributes to pre-service programmes for student teachers from early childhood to secondary.
Seize The Day – Join us in Raising Awareness about the Value of Drama and Theatre Education
National Drama in partnership with the DTEA are asking our members, friends and partners to join in this campaign to raise awareness of the importance of Drama and Theatre Education. Run an event during 20 to 27 March 2023 and spread the word through your social media.
Welcome to the National Drama Blog!
The ND Blog is a space for our members, Patrons and Friends to share timely pieces of writing, responses to developments and current affairs in drama education, and perspective pieces. We welcome blog submissions from our members, which can be sent to our Vice Chair: vicechair@nationaldrama.org.uk
Volume 1 Notes on Authors
Viv Aitken is lecturer in drama in education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where she contributes to pre-service programmes for student teachers from early childhood to secondary.
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