Transforming passive Indian classrooms to creative spaces through creative drama
The process of schooling plays a significant role in shaping the lives of children in the contemporary society.
Drama Research
Performing Research: Tensions, triumphs and trade-offs of ethnodrama
This thoughtful and intelligent volume is a timely analysis of the burgeoning field of ethnodrama, anchored in six case studies. The co-authors guide the reader through the dominant questions and paradoxes of the sub-discipline while wisely dwelling little on the relative merits of any particular label. The title for the book is well chosen since the performance of research is the concept that forms the common denominator for all the myriad off-shoots to which academics and practitioners swear allegiance.
By Judith Ackroyd and John O’Toole
Bringing Shakespeare to life in the Primary School: A Play in a Day
For the last four years Hilary Lee-Corbin has initiated and conducted a research project aimed at introducing Shakespeare to primary children in an accessible and active manner. The initial idea was that by doing this children would be able to approach Shakespeare more easily when they come to study his works in the secondary school. Children’s attitudes towards Shakespeare have been explored in this study using Personal Construct Psychology and Repertory Grids, Stimulated Recall and Semi-structured Interviews.
Volume 2 Editorial Board
Pamela Bowell
Amanda Kipling
Chris Lawrence
Marie-Jeanne McNaughton
Ruth Sayers
Volume 2 Notes on Authors
Alicja Galaska works in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Silesia in Katowice and is also a director of Educational Center “Future” .
Volume 2 Editorial
This issue is dedicated to Dorothy Heathcote who has been honoured by the Queen with an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in recognition of her services to Drama as Education. Those of us who practise in the field of drama education stand on the shoulders of giants. She is one of them.
Drama Research Volume 2
April 2011
Volume 1 Editorial Board
Pamela Bowell
Chris Lawrence
Ruth Sayers
Marie-Jeanne McNaughton
Amanda Kipling
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.