Kelly Freebody: Distance through critique: Moving beyond the ‘common-sense’ of drama for social change
This paper urges us to use a critical lens to distance ourselves from common-sense understandings of what we do and why. It unpacks key...
Simon Dennan: Babylon by Boal
Bob Marley visited the Pacific in 1979 with the Babylon by Bus tour. His influence, through his music, is still felt throughout Oceania as...
Nicola Pauling: When Distance Lives next door; using applied theatre to strengthen complex social...
Wellington City’s 5000 social housing tenants live in medium and high-density housing communities. Cultural diversity amongst this population is high, including significant numbers of...
Linda Hassall: Politics of Distance: Psychological Landscapes. Contemporary Identity in Australian Gothic Drama
The politics of distance has informed the psychological landscape of Australian cultural identity since settlement and colonisation. Australian Gothic drama explores the psychology of...
Roundtable on Drama Education, Climate, and the Environment
A roundtable on an environmental theme at IDIERI 2018, convened by Molly Mullen.
https://youtu.be/GJqq1lb2j_w
Molly Mullen is a Senior Lecturer in applied theatre at the University...
Rachael Jacobs, Robyn Ewing, Juliana M. Saxton and Carole Miller: Embracing tyrannies?: Critical moments...
Assessment is often thought to be the enemy of creativity, with its tyrannical hold over teaching and learning, and its friends ‘quality assurance’ and...
Patrick Pheasant: Looking for Gold: International Students’ Aesthetic Experience in Language Education and Process...
Based on current research conducted at an Australian University English Language Centre, this paper explores parallels between a process drama in 2012 with international...
IDIERI 9: Day 2 Twitter Roundup
The second day of IDIERI 9 was an excellent one - beginning with 6 concurrent practical workshops, the day continued with papers, panels, a performance,...
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...
Martha Lamont: ‘Drama makes my brain healthy’: An inquiry into the potential for using...
This paper identifies the social challenges facing young children with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream classrooms, and explores and recommends drama in education...