It is with profound sorrow that the National Drama Executive shares the news of the passing of our cherished colleague and friend, Vivienne Lafferty. Vivienne was not only ND’s longest-serving officer and our dedicated Newsletter editor, but also a founding member our very first. Her involvement from the earliest steering committee meetings helped shape National …
Welcome to this special issue of Drama Research! This special issue has arisen from the request by the organisers of the Dorothy Heathcote Now Conference 2024 to publish contributions from that Conference in this journal. We welcome the opportunity to feature such a range and quality of articles. The themes of that conference, which took place at Goldsmiths, University of London in November 2024, were ‘Agency and Empowerment’ and the articles in this edition reflect these themes, which are so relevant in the world today, with forces at work that are intent on denying human rights: even the right to live.
It is to be expected that an edition of a journal which has originated from a conference focusing on the work of Dorothy Heathcote will contain a body of work which reflects this focus: and so it does. And it is also not surprising that the work of this great educator fits very well with these themes: so much of her practice enabled both agency and empowerment in all those that she worked with.
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This document has been facilitated and coordinated by Dr Steve Ball and Dr Geoff Readman on behalf of the Drama and Theatre Education Alliance (DTEA).
You Matter Now, more than ever teachers, should be asking young people the question “what would you like to do a drama about?” The question invites children to reflect on what is important to them. We live in an era where it appears that in schools, knowledge is all that matters; it’s certainly all that …
In this month’s ND Blog, Tom Williams and Libby Bellhouse, who performed at the National Drama Conference, tell us about their journey as members of Vita Nova, an arts charity for those in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse.
National Drama’s Executive were invited to meet two members of the DfE on July 13th 2023. Clive Fischer and Amajit Basi presented a position paper with a series of questions from the DfE. Zeena Rasheed, Vice Chair of National Drama presented ND’s response to the DfE via power point. This power point is highly relevant to current …
National Drama’s Response to the Government’s Proposed Cultural Education Plan Read More »
Early in 2023, National Drama was invited to make a presentation to this Enquiry. We needed to respond with considerable speed to the invitation, and many of the ND executive rallied to meet the urgent requests from our Chair for advice, figures and guidance to inform the presentation that he would make. His presentation, shared …
The new issue covers a wealth of feature and articles for drama teachers and theatre educators. ND members should have received your copy in your mailbox now.
