Volume 13 Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Chris Lawrence
Volume 13 Editorial
First of all, let me welcome you to the new look Drama Research. National Drama, the professional association for teachers of Drama and Theatre, has invested in a brand new website and Drama Research has benefitted from this upgrade. We have attempted to make the journal as accessible and approachable as possible and so we …
Drama Research Volume 13
April 2022
Teaching and Learning in the Crucible: Actors with disabilities as experts preparing pre- service teachers to be inclusive educators.
Dorothy Heathcote understood teaching and learning to take place in a kind of ‘crucible’ in which participants, who are both teachers and learners, contribute to the mix and produce new understandings.
Valuing Tacit Knowledge and Clear Pedagogy: Continuing Professional Development for Teachers.
This article reports on a continuing professional development (CPD) programme that was rolled out into approximately 20 primary and secondary schools around Northamptonshire and beyond.
The ‘authentic teacher’: Heathcote’s notion of ‘authenticity’ in second language teaching and learning
In this paper I draw on Heathcote’s notion of the authentic teacher as a framework to analyse a reflective practitioner research on process drama for second language teaching and learning.
Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill
This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks, Body Weather, human-AI music composition, Front-of-House at Shakespeare’s Globe, acrobatics and failing at handstands. In each investigation, performance and theory are mutually revealing, informative and captivating.
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
Teaching complex, abstract concepts through embodied learning: a drama-based approach
The aim of this research is to demonstrate the benefits of teaching complex, abstract concepts through a drama-based approach.
Stand Up for Literature Dramatic Approaches in the Secondary English Classroom
Stand Up For Literature: Dramatic Approaches in the Secondary English Classroom is a contemporary guide for teachers, offering interactive and embodied ways to bring literary and spoken texts to life.