John O’Toole: In here or out there? Investigating the opportunities and challenges of establishing...
This presentation will describe preliminary progress on, and invite contribution to, an informal research project intending to examine and compare how different national and...
Matthew Decoursey: Boal, Bolton and Philosophy on Changes of Perception
Jacques Rancière suggests to us that the process of including excluded people has to do with change of perception, a new "distribution of the...
Matt Omasta and Elizabeth Murray: Assessment in Elementary Drama Education
This study articulates U.S. elementary (primary) school drama specialists’ / teachers’ perceptions of assessment as a component of education and documents assessment processes and...
Catalina Villanueva and Carmel O’Sullivan: Challenging distances: Navigating the waters of critical pedagogy in...
Drama’s potential for critical pedagogy has been explored in recent years (Freebody & Finneran, 2013; O’Connor, 2013), but seldom in Latin American settings. This...
Carol Carter, Richard Sallis and Warren Nebe: Investigating the role of drama in the...
There have been research contributions identifying the efficacy of drama as a method of teaching and learning and for the creation of dialogical spaces....
IDIERI 9: Day 7 Twitter Roundup
The last day of 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute was no less exciting than those that came before it - with some excellent presentations,...
Christine Hatton: Drama as a ‘pedagogy of connection’: crossing epistemological and relational boundaries through...
This paper will explore the use of Heathcote’s rolling role system in a series of drama teaching and research projects which aimed to connect...
Rannveig Thorkelsdóttir: How is drama as a subject implemented in Icelandic compulsory education?
In Iceland, drama is a subject in the national curriculum. Within a socio-cultural framework of understanding, an ethnographic study of the culture and the...
IDIERI 9: Day 6 Twitter Roundup
The penultimate day of the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute was jam-packed with concurrent sessions - papers, panels, and workshops. Keep reading for...
Warren Linds: Weechi metuwe mitotan Playing Games of Presence with Indigenous Youth in Saskatchewan,...
This paper will explore the integration of theatrical play with a land based focus and how it contributes to supporting holistic wellbeing in Indigenous...