{"title":"Performing arts-based interventions in post-conflict zones: critical and ethical questions","authors":"Taiwo Afolabi","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1572431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1572431","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Arts-based practices can occupy a fragile position where its interventionist character becomes both a gift and a poison. For instance, some practitioners/researchers from the Global North consider the Global South as a region to curate, perform and market interventions to solve problems. Such interventionist initiatives have also positioned those regions as sites for/of experimentation as seen in different international development and humanitarian initiatives. Some interventions have been done ethically while others have become a way to extract knowledge and extort the people. I pose ethical questions on performing interventions particularly in conflict/post-conflict zones in Africa not to change what we do but to rethink how we do what we do and perhaps at times to change why we do what we do. I reflect on a theatre performance I directed in Nigeria that was staged in Sudan and raise ethical questions because intervention itself is a performance that should be staged within appropriate ethical protocols and respectful canons.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"51 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87630193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research informed teaching and drama: curating the evidence","authors":"M. Stinson","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1605656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1605656","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been a considerable amount of discussion on social media about the nature of evidence informing teacher decisions about learning. These discussions emerged as a result of a post entitled ‘The problem with using scientific evidence in education (why teachers should stop trying to be more like doctors’) (McKnight and Morgan 2019). In a previous editorial for this journal, we reflected on the complexities of educational research and our role in contributing to the discussion asking then, ‘Is it time then to change the game by sharing educational research in new ways? Might we achieve the change we all know is needed, within drama and beyond, by bringing together personal narratives, established research findings and the aesthetic and dynamic qualities of drama and theatre?’ (Dunn and Stinson 2015, 99). Since its inception, NJ has attempted to share those personal narratives, research processes and results, and critically analyzed examples of practice in an attempt to build a shared community of understanding for drama educators. It is a challenging space. Part of the challenge is to celebrate and share high quality practice and research in a fixed, text-based medium that struggles to document the ephemeral nature of so much of what we do. This journal is an essential platform for discussion about drama education: what we do; how and why we do it. In the current educational and educational research climate, it is crucial that practitioners and researchers in the field of drama education have opportunities to share their research about the critical and creative work that is being undertaken in schools, in universities, in theatres, and in applied theatre contexts. It is imperative their voices are heard. We are pleased to share with our readers that our top ten, most read online articles are (in order):","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74106129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indexing drama research: NJ 1997-2018","authors":"M. Mooney, Joanne O’Mara","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1705881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1705881","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides an index of the collection of published journal articles in NJ between 1997 and 2018 in the context of a discussion about the index form and importance to the activity of Drama...","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77801860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How has drama education training strengthened our teaching skills? Perspectives from preservice teachers and a university professor","authors":"Jan Buley, Scott Yetman, Mitchell McGee-Herritt","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1537134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1537134","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we have reflected on how drama training and drama experiences have helped us in our own journeys as educators and how the artform has invited learners into new communities and collaborative problem-solving. The very spaces of schools are isolating, with classroom doors opening and shutting in long corridors. The curriculum is often siloed and distant from other disciplines and young people and adults spend hours in zombie-like trances, seemingly addicted to hand-held devices, yearning for affirmations of their existence. Drama invites us to connect with one another and come face to face with human beings. Drama invites us to ‘try on’ a lifestyle and language that may be unfamiliar. In addition, study after study has proven that literacy skills are strengthened and enhanced when the crafts of drama—expressive speaking, risk-taking, creativity, imaginative and cooperative thinking and doing—are infused into teaching and learning.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":"20 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79062637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social filters shaping student responses to teacher feedback in the secondary drama classroom","authors":"S. Hogan","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1509368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1509368","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Little is known about how secondary drama students identify or utilise teacher feedback. This article presents findings from a study exploring how drama students describe their experiences of teacher feedback and how, or if, they apply this feedback to enhance their learning. Data collection and analysis focused on students’ experiences of teacher feedback occurring in three secondary drama classrooms in Queensland, Australia. Emergent findings suggest that drama students employ contextual, social and individual learning filters to assess the usefulness of teacher feedback. In the highly interactive and relational drama classroom, social filters can induce or hinder the existence of dialogic feedback. This can subsequently influence the drama students’ perspectives of the usefulness of teacher feedback. This article draws on the student voice to describe these social filters and suggests how drama teachers may culture opportunities for drama students to engage with dialogic and useful teacher feedback.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"192 1","pages":"19 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73180377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presidents’ welcome","authors":"E. Bishop, J. Saunders","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1585180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1585180","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to Whitworth University! For more than 125 years, Whitworth has committed itself to providing an “education of mind and heart” that combines incredible learning opportunities with an enduring commitment to nurturing the soul. Within these pages, you will learn more about the many and diverse academic opportunities we provide for our students. What cannot be captured here is the true spirit of Whitworth. That enabling spirit equips our students to ask hard questions, allows our professors to seek new knowledge no matter where that search leads them, empowers our campus to form a lasting community characterized by grace and truth, and honors the relationships that we build along the way. When you complete your time at Whitworth, you will be among a privileged few who have been equipped to use your newfound wisdom, gifts and talents “to honor God, follow Christ and serve humanity.”","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"101 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80748733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Saunders, M. Mooney, J. Cassidy, H. Cassidy, J. Simons, W. Michaels
{"title":"Tributes to Oliver Fiala","authors":"J. Saunders, M. Mooney, J. Cassidy, H. Cassidy, J. Simons, W. Michaels","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1609319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1609319","url":null,"abstract":"It is with great sadness that I write to our members to inform them of the passing of Oliver Fiala, the first president of the New South Wales Education Drama Association (EDA) (now Drama NSW) in October 2018 at the age of 95. I only met Oliver once at the Drama Australia and Drama New Zealand Combined International Conference in 2015 when he and his wife Heather attended as special guests. He was a wonderful man whose impact on Drama in NSW and across Australia deserves special recognition in this edition of NJ. I have asked some of Oliver’s colleagues to share with us some words reflecting on his extraordinary life. Oliver, thank you for all that you did for Drama Education in your life. Rest well. John Nicholas Saunders President Drama Australia","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"166 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79211875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dialogicality in teaching process drama: three narratives, three frameworks","authors":"Tuija Leena Viirret","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1482728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1482728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This case study explores dialogicality in teaching process drama through the narratives and practices of three experienced drama teachers of the Open University. Dialogue is understood here in the context of ‘I-Thou’ attitude and as the phenomenon of heteroglossia. The analyses of the videotaped reflective interviews with the teachers and process dramas revealed a polyphonic picture of dialogicality in the teaching process, in which juxtapositions of communion and alterity are favoured. These findings may help drama teachers to become more conscious about the challenges and possibilities of generating a fluid and energised dialogicality in process drama.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"79 1","pages":"51 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84313898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education in the Arts (3rd Ed), by Sinclair, C, Jeanneret, N, O’Toole, J, Hunter, M, Oxford University Press, 2018, 273 pp.,$74 AUD, ISBN: 978-0-195-52-794-0","authors":"A. MacDonald","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1493674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1493674","url":null,"abstract":"The 2018 rendition of Education in the Arts is the third edition of the text, being just one year shy of encompassing a decade of change, contention and growth in the Arts education landscape across, predominantly, Australian contexts. A significant proportion of the authors are from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, working across a diverse range of Arts and teacher education contexts. Further contributions from Arts and education specialists from Deakin University, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Tasmania and threaded throughout, powerfully and pointedly.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"97 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74010572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surfing the New Wave: Shakespeare with an Australian accent","authors":"A. Perry","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2018.1493673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2018.1493673","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of Australian approaches to the production of Shakespeare’s plays during and following the New Wave period. Theatre is a barometer and instigator of social change. By mapping Australia’s evolving sense of national identity and its changing relationship with its colonial masters against changes on the stage, we can gain insight into Australia’s evolving cultural relationship with Shakespeare. Tracing the trend from reverence to irreverence to ownership, this paper supplies a background to this evolution that continues to play out on the stage in contemporary Australian productions of Shakespeare.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"79 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74099384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}