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Reza Gholami – Educational Review, 2025
This article builds upon a theoretical framework for "diasporic education" to explore the impact of such an educational approach in a state-funded primary school in England. Diasporic education refers to curricular, pedagogic and political processes that utilise as educational resource the transnational connections of racially and…
Descriptors: Migration, Elementary School Students, Migrants, Social Influences
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Jacobson, Kelsey – Research in Drama Education, 2018
In this paper, the authors argue for novel, less mimetic, ways to harness "the real" in drama practices. They study particular youth theatre-making practices in a Toronto secondary classroom, both successes and failures, to make the case for an untethering of "the real" from realism's representational aesthetics. They further…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Theaters, Drama, Aesthetics
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Heron, Jonathan; Johnson, Nicholas – Research in Drama Education, 2017
This dialogue contributes reflections on the "theatre laboratory" to the scholarly debate surrounding methodologies of drama education and applied performance. The co-authors suggest that the experimental and ensemble-led approach of the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, founded at Trinity College Dublin in 2013 as a space for research into…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Dramatics, Drama, Theaters
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Winston, Joe; Strand, Steve – Research in Drama Education, 2013
This article is based upon research into a participatory Theatre in Education (TiE) programme that toured the West Midlands in 2009, funded by the UK's PREVENT initiative intended to counter the radicalisation of young British nationals by extremist political groups. The article provides a summary of the TiE programme and then presents…
Descriptors: Drama, Foreign Countries, Audiences, Aesthetics
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Kelman, Dave; Rafe, Jane – Research in Drama Education, 2013
An artists' residency in a primary school in regional Victoria Australia staged a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear" in a local theatre. A qualitative, reflective practitioner research study into this project collected and analysed data from participating children and their community audience that gave some insight into their…
Descriptors: Drama, Dramatics, Theaters, Children
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Wessels, Anne – Research in Drama Education, 2013
In this article, we consider the aesthetic, political and pedagogical strengths of a verbatim theatre performance, "The Middle Place" by Project: Humanity, a play that explores the experiences of shelter youth in Toronto, Canada. This ethnographic study moved from drama classrooms into theatres and charted audience responses to the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Audiences, Dramatics
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Winn, Ryan – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2012
When the lights come up on College of Menominee Nation's theater productions they illuminate the stories that students want to tell. These stories have traveled from the campfires, to classrooms, and then to the stage. They are original in execution but build on a long tradition of Indigenous storytelling. The stories are specific to the students,…
Descriptors: Drama, Audiences, Playwriting, Story Telling
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Morris, Gay – Research in Drama Education, 2013
In 2005-2009, the author researched the theatre-making practices of young people in selected black townships near Cape Town, South Africa. Township theatre groups comprised secondary school learners and out-of-school youth who join together to learn about and make theatre, perform and watch each other. These theatre practitioners do not describe…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Foreign Countries, Out of School Youth, Informal Education
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Bottoms, Stephen – Research in Drama Education, 2010
This essay considers the performance context and aesthetics of "Journey Woman", a play devised to initiate a week-long rehabilitative groupwork programme for female prisoners. Although Geese Theatre UK are one of the country's longest-established companies specialising in drama work within the criminal justice sector, this 2006 piece is…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Audiences, Foreign Countries, Females
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Pendle, Andy; Rowe, Nick – Research in Drama Education, 2010
Recorded footage of counselling sessions with real clients can be a valuable educational resource that gives training counsellors the opportunity to analyse the theories and practices they encounter in their education. However, the use of such material raises complex ethical issues: what are the safeguards against the misuse of the material? Can…
Descriptors: Personality, Video Technology, Ethics, Educational Resources
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Hamilton, James R. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2009
In "The Art of Theater," the author proposes and explains a claim that many theater people hold true in some form but have defended in a manner that has had almost no success outside discussions among themselves. The claim proposed is that, in an unqualified way, theater is a form of art. By that the author means theatrical performances are "what…
Descriptors: Drama, Theaters, Art, Aesthetics
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Thom, Paul – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2009
James Hamilton has written a book on the philosophy of theater that is admirable for its analytic clarity and for the wide knowledge of theatrical practice that it brings to bear on philosophical questions. The book's main thesis is that theatrical performances are not presentations or executions or completions of texts, but the meaning of this…
Descriptors: Drama, Philosophy, Integrity, Aesthetic Education
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Blazar, David – English Education, 2011
The author shares his experiences teaching a unit based on the Broadway musical "In the Heights" as a way of engaging the cultural identity of his students, mainly Dominican Americans. The unit he created around the musical was initially built in an effort to make Dominican culture overt in the classroom, fulfilling pedagogical ideas…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Latin Americans, Musical Composition, Theaters
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Richardson, John M. – English Journal, 2012
Every year the author and his colleagues take their grade 12 English students to see four plays at one of Canada's major theaters. Chatting about the series on the last day of class, his students asked him if he had seen "the blue glow from the back row." Laughing at his bewilderment, they told him that during the performances so many…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Theaters
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Wessels, Anne – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2011
The widespread turn towards "collaboration" in qualitative research methodologies warrants careful and continuous critique. This paper addresses the possibilities and the challenges of collaborative methodology, and in particular what happens when the line between pedagogy and methodology is blurred in classroom-based ethnographic…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
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