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Nicolopoulou, Ageliki; Ilgaz, Hande – American Journal of Play, 2013
An article by Angeline S. Lillard and others in the January 2013 issue of "Psychological Bulletin" comprehensively reviewed and criticized the existing body of research on pretend play and children's development. Nicolopoulou and Ilgaz respond specifically to the article's critical review of research on play and narrative…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Story Telling, Research Problems
Shaskan, Victoria – Research in Drama Education, 2013
In February 2012, London-based theatre company Collective Artistes previewed "ZHE: [noun] Undefined," a new play created by director Chuck Mike and performers Tonderai Munyevu and Antonia Kemi Coker. The play follows the true life stories of the two performers, both British Africans, living at the intersections of culture, nationality, gender and…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Homosexuality, Play, Drama
Hamel, Sonia – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2015
On 6 February 2008, a deliberative theatre experiment was held at the National Archives of Quebec. Inspired by the democratic virtues of public deliberation but preoccupied with its blind spots, Forum Theatre was used to initiate discussion about the social tensions between the homeless and other dwellers of public space in downtown Montreal.…
Descriptors: Translation, Educational Research, Communities of Practice, Theater Arts
Seker, Hasan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study aims to analyze pre-service teachers' narrations about important teaching experiences, which mostly affected them and which they mostly enjoyed. In the present study, a qualitative research was used. The study was carried out with 214 pre-service teachers in Mugla, Turkey who wrote short memoirs on learning experiences as prompted by a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Personal Narratives, Qualitative Research
Scrafton, Eleanor; Whitington, Victoria – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Socio-dramatic play is preschool children's leading learning activity (Karpov 2005; Vygotsky 1978). Yet entering play often poses challenges (Corsaro 2003), particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) children (Hruska 2007). At preschool four-year-old CALD children are both acquiring a new language, and learning new rules, social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Dramatic Play, Case Studies
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
Doerksen, Rose – McGill Journal of Education, 2016
Through the lens of a student, this Note from the Field responds to a historical research project which engages pre-service teachers in critical citizenship and social imagination. Looking inward facilitates a personal learning experience of identity that is applied to learning in the 21st century. When 21st century pre-service teacher education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Citizenship Education, Citizenship
Brown, Robert – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2015
This paper explores how aligned arts and play experiences can extend child and family engagement in a public outdoor space. The importance of outdoor play for children is strongly advocated and in response local governments provide playgrounds and recreational open spaces. To extend further the experiences afforded in such spaces some local…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Play, Recreational Activities, Observation
Cornell, Christine – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2011
The technoscientific consequences of both the human drives for glory on the one hand and a comfortable life on the other potentially threaten human existence. "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots), a science fiction play by Karel Capek, bridges ancient writers and contemporary technoscientific endeavors, encouraging individuals to consider these…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Dramatic Play, Sciences, Technology
Tam, Po Chi – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2013
Drawing on the theory of dialogism and the literature on children's culture and cultural resistance, this article investigates the contextual and textual features of the cultural making of a group of children in sociodramatic play in a Hong Kong kindergarten. Different from other, similar studies, this study reports that under the gaze of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Cultural Influences, Children
Pereira, Christine Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explores how multiple lenses enable more nuanced understandings of gender that multicultural education, and by extension multicultural teacher education, will benefit from. In answering the question, "What was taught about gender and education within this multicultural teacher education course?" the teaching of gender…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Feminism, Multicultural Education, Postmodernism
Banks, Sachie – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This study explores the effectiveness and challenges of a collaborative drama project conducted in a beginner-level Japanese language university class. The project had two main objectives: firstly, it encouraged students to focus on linguistic elements during the process of writing, examining and editing the scenario, and to embed it in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Drama, International Educational Exchange
Lynch, M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Drawing on data collected for a larger study investigating kindergarten teachers' online discussions of play, the present qualitative study examines teachers' discussions of gender. Findings suggest that teachers' project onto their kindergarten students many of their own gender prejudices about play. These teachers reinforced gendered attitudes…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes, Play, Kindergarten
Sciaraffa, Mary – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Is it the teacher's job to assist children in developing a healthy sexual identity in early childhood? A healthy sexual identity is developed over the course of a lifetime through the "process of acquiring information and forming attitudes, beliefs, and values about such important topics as identity, relationships, and intimacy." Teachers may feel…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Sexual Identity, Intimacy
Beaunae, Cathrine; Wu, Chiu-Hui; Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka – Qualitative Inquiry, 2011
This play describes how the authors become aware of the complexities of resistance and performativity in the qualitative interview process. It also illustrates how this awareness and subsequent acquisition of knowledge changed and informed the way they viewed qualitative research interviewing. More specifically, performativity is put into work in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interviews, Faculty, Drama