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 3 Twitter Roundup
IDIERI 9 entered its third day on a particularly cold winter's morning. With a plethora of exciting workshops, papers, and panels, the day saw a lot...
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...
Eva Göksel: (Self)Reflection, Agency and New Perspectives: Learning to Teach with Drama in Education
This video-ethnographic study explores pre-service teacher agency and creativity in the Swiss context. A small group of student teachers voluntarily attends after-hours training on...
Dirk J Rodricks: Diasporic Intimacy in/through/with an Applied Theatre Methodology: Tensions and Possibilities for...
The notion of intimacy is connected to home and a diasporic intimacy, according to Boym (1998), is one that is not opposed to uprootedness...
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...
Voices in Dialogue: Peter O’Connor
There was so much in the way of stimulating learning and idea-sharing at the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute (IDIERI...
Chris Blois-Brooke: Documenting ‘Otherness’: The Tyrannical Construction of Knowledge about Theatre for Development?
With Applied Theatre practitioners continuing to work in disparate corners of the world, the documentation of practice is important to allow ideas to travel...
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...
Rannveig Thorkelsdóttir: A suitable vision for the functions of Drama in schools, now and...
In 2013 drama was included in the national curriculum framework in Iceland for the first time. As a result, there were considerable tensions connected...