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Sloan, Cathy – Research in Drama Education, 2020
Reflecting on "The Antidote," created with performers in recovery from addiction, this paper theorises theatre-making practice that attends to being as formed through affective and emotive relation with others, including the non-human. It suggests that theatrical activity generates spaces, or liminal milieus, that facilitate new patterns…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Activism, Addictive Behavior, Drug Rehabilitation
Lo, Chih-Cheng; Wen, Hsifu; Lin, Yi-Shuang – SAGE Open, 2021
While the effect of Readers Theater (RT) on English oral reading fluency has been extensively investigated, research on the effect of RT on adolescents' English reading and listening comprehension was scant and yielded different results. This research aimed to explore how RT instruction influenced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Schnyder, Stephanie Solis; Wico, Diana Monsivais; Huber, Tonya – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
This literature review highlights the utility of identifying early childhood adversities through dramatic play and theater arts. Understanding the impact of early childhood education, our focus included beneficial, qualitative observations of the positive therapeutic outcomes when participating in theater arts activities. We chose to search these…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Art Therapy, Dramatic Play, Self Expression
Pangayan, Victor – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education's learning environment is shifting toward online education. There are no exceptions when it comes to teaching and studying dance art in institutions. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the effectiveness of an e-learning system for learning and pedagogical…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Student Experience
Bas, Kenan; Durmus, Esen – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of social studies teaching through performing arts on the academic achievement and permanence of knowledge of performing arts and students. The participants of this research consisted of 250 6th grade students studying at five secondary schools located in different educational regions within…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Social Studies, Instructional Effectiveness, Theater Arts
Kilburn, Jayme – Research in Drama Education, 2019
As a first-year writing instructor, I generally expect a few mainstays: a handful of bored students, recurring absences, and plenty of covert texting. In order to disrupt the usual lackluster engagement associated with required classes, I approach my writing seminar like a theatre class. By incorporating common performance practices such as the…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Feminism
Young-Jahangeer, Miranda; Horner, Bridget – Research in Drama Education, 2019
South African education is in crisis, which also presents an opportunity for innovation and experimentation. This paper describes and analyses one such pedagogical experiment with a combined class of Architecture and Applied Theatre students from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Students were taken through a critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Theater Arts
Forgasz, Rachel – Educational Forum, 2019
I draw on theories of embodied and critical reflection to propose how Boal's The Rainbow of Desire (TRoD) develops teachers' critical consciousness by supporting them to interrogate practice through the lens of power. In particular, the embodied, emotional, problem-posing, and collaborative characteristics of TRoD offer an embodied approach to…
Descriptors: Reflection, Consciousness Raising, Power Structure, Theater Arts
Gupta, Rakesh – Childhood Education, 2019
Over the last few decades, the proportion of students receiving arts education has shrunk drastically. When students were asked to share information about their culture and history, it was discovered that a majority of students lacked knowledge of their own history and culture. It is also important for students to have exposure to other cultures…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Art Education, Cultural Awareness, History Instruction
Bora, Debajit – Research in Drama Education, 2019
This paper analyses the theatre experiments of Badungduppa theatre (Assam, India). This theatre group is made up of tribal 'Rabha' community actors, a director, and theatre workers, and it incorporates the forgotten aesthetics of the community into its theatre practice and actor training. Over time, the Rabha community has been exploited by the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Aesthetics, Theater Arts, Groups
Arreola, Joseph James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The benefits of arts education have been widely explored by researchers. However, much of the research conducted has been done with broad strokes encompassing all arts disciplines. Additionally, the studies conducted have focused primarily on quantitative data and relationships of student achievement to their participation in the arts. There is…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Art Education, Student School Relationship, Student Experience
Acuña-Umaña, K.; Gómez-Quirós, Carla; Herrera-Sancho, Oscar Andrey – Physics Education, 2022
The implementation of theatre as a didactic tool for teaching science provides a new perspective on the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in the construction of meaningful learning experiences. Gamification and collaborative work are functional strategies to teach scientific concepts in a creative way. However, there are still conceptual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Theater Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bhargava, Rahul; Brea, Amanda; Palacin, Victoria; Perovich, Laura; Hinson, Jesse – Educational Technology & Society, 2022
Data literacy is a growing area of focus across multiple disciplines in higher education. The dominant forms of introduction focus on computational toolchains and statistical ways of knowing. As data driven decision-making becomes more central to democratic processes, a larger group of learners must be engaged in order to ensure they have a seat…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Data Analysis, Social Justice, Statistics Education
Magruder, Lewis – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2016
Learning how to transform an empty space into one alive with dramatic possibilities is one of the challenges facing students in several disciplines--for example, graphic design, filmmaking, gaming, architecture, interior design, visual arts, and designing and directing for the theatre. The author, a professor of directing for the theatre,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Computer Simulation, Theater Arts, Theaters
Ames, Margaret – Research in Drama Education, 2018
The article examines the ways in which failure operated in the devising process with a colleague with learning disabilities. Themes of collaboration, co-creativity and power relations are set within the account of a process between the author and a research participant with learning and physical disabilities. The postdramatic device of failure…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Theater Arts, Trauma, Physical Disabilities