Drama in Education as one of the Opportunities of Cross‐Cultural Pedagogy
In a world deeply affected by globalisation, negotiating effectively across cultural diversities has vital and increasing importance.
Drama Research
Dorothy Heathcote on Education and Drama: Essential Writings
Dorothy Heathcote MBE was a unique educator whose practice had a vital influence on the international development of Drama in Education. For more than half a century she inspired generations of teachers and educators all over the world by her original and authentic approach to teaching and learning.
This new collection of the essential writings of Dorothy Heathcote traces the development of her practice over her long professional life. It combines the most important and influential articles from the first edition with more recent pieces to show the significant development in Heathcote’s thinking and practice.
Discovering the value of ‘not knowing’.. Using drama for a deeper understanding of pedagogy and learning
This is the first phase of our research which looks to use drama development to increase pedagogical effectiveness within drama but more widely in other curricular areas also.
The Impact of Live Performance in Primary Schools in Ireland: A Case Study of the Abbey Theatre’s Priming the Canon Programme
Set against the context of the Arts in Education Charter, which encourages a partnership between artists and schools, this article reports on a study conducted with the Community and Education Department at the Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland.
Volume 8 Editorial Board
Viv Kerridge
Amanda Kipling
Chris Lawrence
Nicola Toneri
Volume 8 Notes on Authors
Hasan Akbulut is a professor in İstanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radi TV and Cinema in Turkey.
Volume 8 Editorial
This issue of Drama Research is unusual in that all the articles focus primarily on work with Primary age young people and in countries other than England: Turkey, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.
Drama Research Volume 8
April 2017
Researching applied theatre through the ethnography of performance: a perspective from the South
In this paper we ask the basic question: How can arts education practices such as applied drama and theatre be better researched through performance ethnography as methodology?
Voice Studies: Critical Approaches to Process, Performance and Experience
Voice Studies brings together leading international scholars and practitioners, to re-examine what voice is, what voice does, and what we mean by ‘voice studies’ in the process and experience of performance. This dynamic and interdisciplinary publication draws on a broad range of approaches, from composing and voice teaching through to psychoanalysis and philosophy. With contributions spanning six continents, the volume considers the processes of teaching or writing for voice, the performance of voice in theatre, live art, music, and on recordings, and the experience of voice in acoustic perception and research. It concludes with a multifaceted series of short provocations that simply revisit the core question of the whole volume: what is voice studies?
By Konstantinos Thomaidis and Ben Macpherson