The pilot study presented in this article illustrates how drama‐in‐education might be used to foster historical empathy in first year secondary school students in Greece.
In Imagining the Real, David Davis revitalises the development of classroom drama as an art form, taking it out of the doldrums to respond to the cultural demands of today’s students. This internationally acclaimed architect of drama teaching, links the best of the ground-breaking work of Dorothy Heathcote and Gavin Bolton with the pioneering developments in theatre form by playwright Edward Bond, to signal a way to move forward.
This book is for all students and practitioners of drama, trainee teachers and drama teachers in schools and Higher Education.
By David Davis
This essay focuses on the response of drama pedagogy to the contemporary developments in intermediality and the hybridity of media in performance contexts.
This paper examines how ‘relaxed performances’ are being offered by an increasing number of mainstream theatres so children with complex individual needs and their families can enjoy the social and cultural experience of live theatre.
Though not widely employed in the K‐12 classrooms (Wagner, 1998; Wolf, Edmiston, and Enciso, 1997), process drama is a potential catalyst for developing learner’s literacy learning.
Pamela Bowell
Viv Kerridge
Amanda Kipling
Chris Lawrence
Heidi Andrade is an Associate Professor of educational psychology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Education, University at Albany, SUNY.
In this issue of Drama Research two of the five articles published here set out to research two opposite ends of the Drama/Theatre spectrum: the new world of digital media at one end; and the very old world of traditional pantomime at the other. Each article makes a convincing case for further research into the value to Drama pedagogy of their respective areas of Drama and Theatre.
April 2015
Viv Aitken is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton New Zealand, where she contributes to pre-service programmes for primary and secondary teachers and supervises postgraduate research.
