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,…

Explores the stories of teachers who were prepared to risk and explore process drama experiences with their students. Considers what influences would emerge as important to them when they began to experiment with drama teaching practices. (SG)

Notes that in academic theatre there is a deep division between those individuals who consider themselves practitioners and those who consider themselves theorists. Considers the role of ideology in theater practice. Discusses the author's experience teaching drama with an idealistic view. (SG)

Presents the keynote address given at the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Junior High/Middle School Committee's conference on "Exploring the Curriculum through Drama." Discusses why drama and theater must be an integral part of the education of children. (SR)

Provides 10 annotations to journal articles from the ERIC database that cover the topic of drama in the classroom. (MM)

Summarizes documents from the ERIC database that provide suggestions for integrating disabled students into elementary and secondary school drama activities, as well as information about programs and activities that encourage understanding and appreciation of school children with physical and mental disabilities. (MS)

Traces the development of the Association Internationale du Theatre pour l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse (ASSITEJ), the international association of theaters for children and youth, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1990. (SR)

Discusses the plays of Wendy Kesselman. Analyzes the plays in light of the special demands they make upon young audiences. (MS)

Describes the author's directing experiences in Lima, Peru, and in San Migual de Allende, Mexico. Includes insights gained through work in both Spanish-spoken theater and bilingual Spanish-English theater. (SR)

Explores how virtual reality may effect drama in education. Calls for drama educators to become involved in the research and the development phases of the technology. (SR)

Presents a 54-page index to the journal "Children's Theatre Review," covering the years 1976-86. (SR)

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…

Recounts the life and times of a pioneer children's theater playwright and fiction author, Nora Tully MacAlvay (1900-86). Points out that her interest in children's theater and children's literature was lifelong and intense. (PA)

Discusses how Felix Adler's Ethical Culture School, through its innovative practices, impacts public education and settlement work, and plays a significant role in shaping the methodologies, practices, and content of educational drama in the United States from the inception of the field. Describes the use of story dramatization/storytelling,…