Editorial
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Drama Conventions in Educational and Applied Sciences
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Conversation with Cecily O'Neill - a video interview
Articles
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Discoveries beyond the lesson plan: a 'how to'
In this paper, Jonathan P. Jones and David T. Montgomery unpack messages about spontaneity in process drama in order to support novice teachers as they endeavor to plan and facilitate this work. The authors refer to their planning processes and examples from their facilitation to provide guidance on how to...
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Drama-in-English: the significance of role
This article explores how Dorothy Heathcote’s approach to role can inform learning in English. It is founded on a conception of drama and role-play that is closely aligned with Heathcote’s understanding of the possibilities of careful attention to sign and to the nuances of an assumption or suggestion of role...
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Drama in a philosophy classroom: philosophy and/through drama
Drama education has demonstrated its potential to enrich teaching across disciplines, yet its application in philosophy education remains largely unexplored. This article aims to highlight the unique advantages of drama in fostering reflection and deep engagement, particularly through the use of fictional contexts that emphasize human interconnectedness within complex relationships....
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Applied Drama in the intersection of education and healing
The article aims at exploring how learning in the classroom becomes more engaging and a dynamic transformative experience for the learners when it becomes embodied through drama tools and conventions. It presents case studies of the work of Rangbhumi Applied Theatre, exploring the intersection of education and therapy; and investigates...
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Hills like white elephants: a drama conventions approach to short-story
The article is a practice-theoretical exploration of a process drama workshop based on Ernest Hemingway’s short-story Hills Like White Elephants (1927). It is an attempt to elucidate a drama conventions approach to a whole drama structure based on a literary text. Qualified by the question: How can thematic discovery within...
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Conventions as mediation for creative interaction between contemporary theatre art and applied practices of theatre
This essay explores the potential mutual influences between educational/applied theatre and contemporary theatre in terms of convention, questioning the current disconnection between them in reality. The first part reexamines the concept of convention and the importance of the conventions approach as a mindset. It introduces Burns’ sociological exploration of theatricality...
Features
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The ABC of Mantle of the Expert
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The use of Dorothy Heathcote's conventions within Mantle of the Expert in a primary classroom
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Making process drama effective online for children and young people
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Scripting the Unscripted: exploring the theatre of real life
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Experimental lesson plans for contemporary theatre and educational/ applied theatre to meet again under the mediation of conventions
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The forgotten tools
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'The Hidden'
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Epilogue: Roundtable on Drama Conventions - creative practices