There has been a long history concerning the application of educational action research in a diversity of school subjects.
This article concerns drama, school curriculum and the practice of hope in neoliberal societies.
Dr. Yukari Ishino is Professor of the Volunteer Center at Waseda University and actress.
Many of the articles in this issue are concerned with the concept of transformation in different forms and by different methods. Transformation is by its nature an elusive concept to evaluate and measure; but, as it is so central to drama education – indeed, to all education – it is important that attempts are made by researchers to examine it and bring forward evidence of its occurrence. This is precisely what many researchers in this issue have set out to do.
