Claire French: Towards translingual praxis: departures from monolingual facilitation
This paper presents interdisciplinary research that draws from discourse in sociolinguistics to problematise uncritical language-based paradigms inherited by facilitators of applied performance praxis, focusing...
Monica Prendergast and Robyn Shenfield Bouchard: From theatre to performance studies: Collaborating on curriculum...
The implementation of a performance studies curriculum in secondary schools presents opportunities and barriers. Following from a federally-funded curriculum development project--that led to the...
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,...
Wendy Mages: Theatre-in-Education, Language, and Perspective Taking in Early Childhood Education
At the nexus of three disciplines— educational theatre and drama, language development, and cognitive development—this mixed-methods study investigates the effect of a preschool theatre-in-education...
Dorothy Morrissey: Dramatic performance as pedagogy in initial teacher education
This paper focuses on the use of dramatic performance as pedagogy in an elective module in drama education, located in the final semester of...
Diversity of Practice at IDIERI 9
One of the great privileges of documenting conferences such as the International Drama in Education Research Institute is being able to partake in diverse...
Wasim Kurdi: Yearnings of Immigration and Its Agony
Identity formulation through experiencing: “distances by traveling” and “distances by departing”
In 1851, the first Palestinian man arrived in Brazil as an asylum seeker following a harsh...
Po Chi, Tam and Mei-Chun, Lim: Glocalising drama education in Hong Kong and Taiwan:...
Drawing on the theory of Chen Kuan-Hsing’s, ‘Asia as Method’, this paper aims to investigate how drama education is glocalised in the early childhood...
Madge Hair: Writing on Gumbaynggirr Country for Co-Created Theatre as Decolonising Practice
This presentation analyses the challenges and processes of cocreating pieces of musical theatre inspired by and responding to storylines from Gumbaynggirr country, mid-north coast,...
New free e-book by Monica Prendergast and Will Weigler: Web of Performance: An Ensemble...
Dr. Monica Prendergast is an Associate Professor of Drama/Theatre Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Victoria.
Her research interests include drama-based...