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Michelle MacArthur; Kimberley McLeod; Scott Mealey – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article examines the creation and reception of "The Stream You Step In," a digital series co-produced by Outside the March for University of Windsor students and performed live over Zoom in 2020. While Zoom is assumed to be a care-less medium, we argue that it offers new, altered modes of caring through its disruption of boundaries…
Descriptors: Drama Education, Foreign Countries, Universities, Videoconferencing
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Powell, Sarah J.; Somerville, Margaret – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In performing the zombie game, children enact embodied literacies through movement, gesture, and sound, and through incorporating the materiality and the spatiality of the outdoor area. They communicate in many ways, both brutal and subtle, enacting their understandings with each other as well as with other adults. The repeated performance seems…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Educational Games, Human Body, Motion
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Matuszak, Alla; Tsalko, Elena; Matuszak, Zbigniew – NORDSCI, 2018
The requirements to future specialists in professional education accentuate the qualities of their adaptability, constant self-improvement, capacity to adjust to the new demand in the profession. These qualities are especially important for students of pedagogy and art preparing for the career of actors-instructors, i.e. instructors teaching…
Descriptors: Acting, Theater Arts, Drama, Teacher Competencies
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Shah, Sonali; Wallis, Mick; Conor, Fiona; Kiszely, Phillip – Research Papers in Education, 2015
The transfer of disability history research to new generation audiences is crucial to allow lessons from the past to impact the future inclusion and equality agenda. As today's children are the policy makers and the legislators of tomorrow, it is important for them to have opportunities to engage with disability life story narratives to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, History
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Woodworth, Ann E. – Journal of General Education, 2014
Qatar can afford to purchase pretty much anything--including top-quality American university education. However, given the vast differences in culture, dress, religion, and social mores, along with youth's global unemployment rates and their hankering for all things technological, does it make sense for Qatar to import a course in acting? Many…
Descriptors: International Schools, Multicampus Colleges, Cultural Differences, Institutional Characteristics
Zhang, Yun – English Teaching Forum, 2009
According to Ur (1996, 120), "of all the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), speaking seems intuitively the most important." Indeed, whether for business or pleasure, a primary motivation to learn a second language is to be able to converse with speakers of that language. However, in addition to being an important…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Phonemes
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van de Water, Manon – Youth Theatre Journal, 1994
Interprets for the American reader the untranslated dramatic methods of Hans van Dam, a leading drama theorist in the Netherlands. Discusses the functions of drama as a method, closed dramatic methods, open dramatic methods, and applying van Dam's methods. (SR)
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Rubin, Lucille S. – 1978
This report is the result of a six-week study in which the voice training offerings at four schools of drama in London were examined using interviews of teachers and directors, observation of voice classes, and attendance at studio presentations and public performances. The report covers such topics as: textbooks and references being used; courses…
Descriptors: Acting, Course Content, Dramatics, Foreign Countries
Davis, David, Ed. – 1997
This book contains papers presented at an "Interactive Research Conference" held in June 1996 at the University of Central England. The conference focused on the pioneering work of Professor Dorothy Heathcote in the field of drama in education. Twenty-three different countries were represented at the conference. The book has three…
Descriptors: Acting, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Dramatic Play
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Salazar, Laura Gardner – Stage of the Art, 1998
Describes a theater in Port-of-Spain developed by a recovered drug user and advertising executive to provide a safe and interesting environment for recovering drug users. Discusses the methods used to engage the participants in learning about theater. Offers a chronological recounting of the class and describes participants' reactions to various…
Descriptors: Acting, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Drug Addiction