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The Play's the Thing: Reflections on the Use of Playwriting as Creative Practice within an Education Studies PhD
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Beth Curtis; Gary Husband – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2025
Purpose: Expanding on Harris and Sinclair (2014, p. 5) claim that "the writing of a play is an act of inquiry", this paper aims to consider the joyful entanglements, messiness and friction-led use of creative methods within the context of a PhD in education studies. Design/methodology/approach: Amplifying the voices of both doctoral…
Descriptors: Playwriting, Creativity, Doctoral Programs, Education Majors
'You Have That in Your Body, You Have That for Life': The Significance of the Body and Embodiment in Experiences of Learning and Assessment in A-Level Drama
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Beth Curtis – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
This paper reasserts the significance and centrality of the body in experiences of learning and assessment in A-level drama. Drawing on data gathered from semi-structured interviews with A-level drama students and teachers, the findings highlight the importance of embodiment in ways of learning in drama education and problematises the impact of…
Descriptors: Human Body, Drama, College Students, Student Attitudes