Beyond belonging: the relationship between community and power for urban students of color
This article discusses the results of a pilot study exploring the connection between power and community for urban students.
Drama Research
Exploring the edges of theatre form and moral values through a practical approach to Grand-Guignol
This article will argue that there is much to be learnt by considering how the responses of modern audiences to the plays of the Grand-Guignol are so different from the responses of those who originally flocked to this curious little theatre.
Young minds in action: exploring the use of drama role play for citizenship education
Drama as a learning medium is readily accessible to young children and it recognises the multi-faceted nature of children’s expression through verbal and non-verbal means.
Adults’ work? Process drama in the context of adult learning and creativity
The paper suggests that for adults, creative tensions can emerge around concepts of adulthood and play, social self and fictional role, intellect and imagination and the aesthetics of artful pedagogy.
“Everyone has somewhere they belong, luckily for me I belong in theatre”. Experienced secondary students reflect on their participation in theatre
Experienced secondary students from two Tucson, Arizona, schools completed open-ended questionnaires about their theatre programmes.
Using a ‘drama eye’ to plan an integrated language arts program
An integrated language arts perspective requires that teachers encourage students to use language across the curriculum.
Volume 1 Notes on Authors
Viv Aitken is lecturer in drama in education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where she contributes to pre-service programmes for student teachers from early childhood to secondary.
Volume 1 Editorial
This inaugural edition of Drama Research presents a broad spectrum of work and thought in articles that examine the multi-faceted nature of drama. Written from a range of international and age-range perspectives, together they reveal ways in which drama engages the mind, body and spirit of all those who participate.
Drama Research Volume 1
April 2010