{"title":"Practice what you preach: research-based theatre as a method to investigate drama teacher professional identity","authors":"K. McConville, Michelle Ludecke","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1705177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1705177","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers’ perceptions of their own professional identity affect their efficacy and professional development, as well as their ability and willingness to cope with educational change and implement i...","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79108592","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":"‘The Greatest Love of All’: an ethnodrama celebrating the continuing and evolving culture of the drama teacher","authors":"Jane Bird, K. McConville, R. Sallis","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1704975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1704975","url":null,"abstract":"The main content of this article is an ethnodramatic text (J) or research-based performance text which was based on interviews recorded with 50 Victorian educators who each have had 30 or more year...","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78291485","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":"The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama and the Unexpected","authors":"Carol Carter","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1705178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1705178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86218289","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":"Review of Drama research methods: provocations of practice","authors":"Carol Carter","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1706228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1706228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88895422","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":"The continuum of practice and change","authors":"Susan E. Davis","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1730978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1730978","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89049001","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":"Understanding the world through the affordances of drama: early career teacher perspectives","authors":"Alison Grove O’Grady","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1585933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1585933","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article contemplates the way five early career drama teachers in NSW speak and write about what they consider, the special characteristics and attributions of drama to facilitate learning in order for students to make sense of a complex world. These particular teachers reflect on their passionate individual beliefs in the affordances of drama to provision students with tools to mediate a changing world and that teaching drama permits them to create the conditions for students to challenge popular or dominant notions. These drama teachers believe that good drama teaching also allows meaningful learning to occur for students from a range of abilities including, physical ability. These teachers unanimously argue that teaching drama has corroborated their ideological positions and cemented their belief that drama is a critical tool for transforming learning in ways that promotes student voice and agency.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86219637","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":"Pandora and the Tiger’s Whisker: stories as a pretext in two adult language learning contexts","authors":"Victoria Campbell, Zoe Hogan","doi":"10.1080/14452294.2019.1585931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14452294.2019.1585931","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the way two traditional tales were adapted and modified for use as pretexts in the Connected: Adult Language Learning through Drama program (CALLD) with migrant populations, including refugees and asylum seekers, in two sites during 2017 & 2018 in Sydney, Australia. The focus of this article is to explore the way ancient stories such as folktales and myths function in these settings, and how through action and reflection the authors, as teaching artists on the program, adapted these tales to better engage the participants in the process drama that followed. Through a generative conversation the authors discuss this experience, reviewing aspects of the narrative that worked and those that did not, resulting in a deeper understanding about the efficacy of various narrative elements to engage and motivate learning in the CALLD setting.","PeriodicalId":41180,"journal":{"name":"NJ-Drama Australia Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76485039","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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}