Christian Leavesley and Alexandra Macalister-Bills: A familiar distance: converged theatre making in regional Victorian...
Does distance from major cultural centres necessarily imply a dearth of theatre experiences for regional and rural young people? This paper will explore Arena...
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...
Rachel Rhoades: Ethnodrama of Intersectionality: Neoliberalism & Youth Resistance in Toronto
The 12 Toronto youth in my ethnodrama study strive to survive neoliberal individualism that distances them from intimate peer connections and from knowledge of...
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...
Robyn Ewing and John Nicholas Saunders: Bridging the literacy-arts divide in Australian primary education:...
In neo-liberal times the distance between traditional understandings of literacy and the Arts has lengthened dramatically. A partnership between Australia’s largest theatre company and...
Jan Cohen-Cruz – Notes from an Autumn Gardener: Reflections on Theater and Distance
Two photographs bookend my talk. The first, an 8×10 inch “head shot,” which actors staple to their resume and leave with casting agents, was...
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...
Takahiro Watanabe: How can drama change learning of both teachers and children at school?
Introducing drama into school curriculum can impact how teachers learn during in-service training programs at school as well as how children learn in lessons....
Mary Ann Hunter: On wayfinding and a precarious politics of presence
Educators, artists, children, star-gazers. We/they/you trade in primacies of encounter and the arts of being present – to oneself, to others, and to belongings of practice,...
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...
















