Discusses ethnographic performance texts (sometimes called ethnotheatre or ethnodrama), which employ traditional techniques to mount a performance event as an alternative mode of research representation, with actors portraying actual research participants. Discusses ethnodrama's rationale, content and structure, participants and characters,…

Reports on a study which interviewed children (fourth, fifth, and sixth graders) on the following issues: who should play child protagonists in children's theatre (adults or children); which actor in a particular production was most believable and realistic; and casting advice for directors of children's theatre. (SR)

Defines "something else" as something that attends to the complexity of the questions asked and the diversity of the "audiences" for whom "knowledge" is being produced--the fruits of research efforts. Finds that it is less a matter of continuing to perpetuate the qualitative/quantitative debate than attempting to…

Discusses issues of qualitative research stimulated by Eileen Waldschmidt's work on bilingual teachers and creative drama including issues of the researcher's stance, primacy of voice, and thickness of data. (SR)

Responds to jurors' comments and questions regarding the author's study on bilingual teachers and creative drama. Argues that she did write four teacher stories, but questions whether they hold up to criteria often used to evaluate stories. Asks just whose story is being told in qualitative research. (SR)

Rates children's responses to selected probing questions after they viewed a theatrical production. Finds that (1) those who received continuous class drama and theatre-viewing experiences since kindergarten gave more high-level responses; and (2) there was no significant difference between the way boys and girls responded to the questions. (MS)