Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice
Published on 6. December 2018
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-90-04-38956-4 (ISBN)
Description
At a time when universities demand immediate and quantifiable impacts of scholarship, the voices of research participants become secondary to impact factors and the volume of research produced. Moreover, what counts as research within the academy constrains practices and methods that may more authentically articulate the phenomena being studied. When external forces limit methodological practices, research innovation slows and homogenizes.
This book aims to address the methodological, interpretive, ethical/procedural challenges and tensions within theatre-based research with a goal of elevating our field's research practice and inquiry. Each chapter embraces various methodologies, positionalities and examples of mediation by inviting two or more leading researchers to interrogated each other's work and, in so doing, highlighted current debates and practices in theatre-based research. Topics include: ethics, method, audience, purpose, mediation, form, aesthetics, voice, data generation, and research participants. Each chapter frames a critical dialogue between researchers that take multiple forms (dialogic interlude, research conversation, dramatic narrative, duologue, poetic exchange, etc.).
This book aims to address the methodological, interpretive, ethical/procedural challenges and tensions within theatre-based research with a goal of elevating our field's research practice and inquiry. Each chapter embraces various methodologies, positionalities and examples of mediation by inviting two or more leading researchers to interrogated each other's work and, in so doing, highlighted current debates and practices in theatre-based research. Topics include: ethics, method, audience, purpose, mediation, form, aesthetics, voice, data generation, and research participants. Each chapter frames a critical dialogue between researchers that take multiple forms (dialogic interlude, research conversation, dramatic narrative, duologue, poetic exchange, etc.).
Reviews / Votes
"Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice is an outstanding and important book. This engaging, well-crafted, and highly original collection makes significant contributions to performance studies and arts-based research. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how theatre arts can merge with teaching and research practices. I applaud the editors and contributors. Bravo!" - Patricia Leavy, PhD, author of Method Meets Art (Guilford Publications, 2009) and Low-Fat Love (Sense, 2015)"What the reader comes away with [after reading this book] is an unusual peek behind the curtain of arts-based educational research (...) In Drama Research Methods, the editors crafted a text that had a clear intention - there would be no more hero narratives or success stories, which so frequently pervade educational drama research publications (202). (...) Duffy, Hatton, and Sallis have effectively closed the circle, marrying methods and practice in a way that more accurately reflects the field." - Jonathan P. Jones in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (2021).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38956-4 (9789004389564)
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Peter Duffy | Christine Hatton | Richard Sallis
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Persons
Peter Duffy, Ed.D. (2014), University of South Carolina, is an award winning associate professor and heads the Master of Arts in Teaching program in theatre education. His research includes cognition and the arts, culturally responsive pedagogies and performed research.
Christine Hatton, Ph.D. (2005), University of Sydney, is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle. Her scholarly interests include drama, arts education and gender in education.She was awarded the 2014 Faculty of Education and Arts Early Career Research Fellowship.
Richard Sallis, Ph.D., University of Melbourne, is a senior lecturer in arts education at the that university's Graduate School of Education. His research includes arts education, gender and identity, and professional theatre for/with youth. He was the 2012 AATE Distinguished Dissertation Award recipient.
Christine Hatton, Ph.D. (2005), University of Sydney, is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle. Her scholarly interests include drama, arts education and gender in education.She was awarded the 2014 Faculty of Education and Arts Early Career Research Fellowship.
Richard Sallis, Ph.D., University of Melbourne, is a senior lecturer in arts education at the that university's Graduate School of Education. His research includes arts education, gender and identity, and professional theatre for/with youth. He was the 2012 AATE Distinguished Dissertation Award recipient.
Content
Foreword: The Both/and of Performance Research
?Anne M. Harris
Introduction
Part 1: Provocations of Design
1. Touchstones of Practice: Consideration from the Theatre Workshop Floor
?George Belliveau and Christine Sinclair
2. Act-ive P-art-icipation: Social Inclusion and Drama Research
?Jo Raphael and Kelly Freebody
3. Learning on the Ground: How Our Research Stories Teach Us about Ethics
?Kathleen Gallagher and Richard Sallis
Part 2: Provocations of Method
4. A Research Tango in Three Moves: Gendering the Drama Research Space
?Christine Hatton and Richard Sallis
5. Three Arts Based Researchers Walk into a Forum: A Conversation on the Opportunities and Challenges in Embodied and Performed Research
?Nisha Sajnani, Richard Sallis and Joe Salvatore
6. Surrender, Pedagogy Ambiguity, Research and Impossibility: Cats @ Play
?Joe Norris, Lynn Fels and Yasmine Kandil
7. Participation in Participatory Drama-Based Research
?Diane Conrad and Janinka Greenwood
Part 3: Provocations of representation
8. How Do Culture and Power Work in and through Drama Research?: An e-Conversation Between
?Selina Busby and Brian S. Heap
9. Representation, Authenticity and the Graphic Novel in Arts Education Inquiry: Transubstantiating Research
?Robin Pascoe and Peter R. Wright
10. Defiant Bodies: A Punk Rock Crip Queer Cabaret: Cripping and Queering Emancipatory Disability Research
?Emma Selwyn and Liselle Terret
Part 4: Provocations of practice
11. We Need to Talk about Theory: Rethinking the Theory/Practice Dichotomy in Pursuit of Rigour in Drama Research
?Helen Cahill, Viv Aitken and Christine Hatton
12. The Stories That Made Us: A Duoethnography on Becoming Reflective Drama Researchers
?Christine Hatton and Peter Duffy
13. Research and Its Impact: A Dramatic Cyber-Dialogue in Three Scenes
?John O'Toole and Peter Duffy
14. Lessons Learned: Provocations of Practice
?Allison Anders, Peter Duffy, Christine Hatton and Richard Sallis
15. Afterword: Well Begun Is Half Done
?Brad Haseman
?Anne M. Harris
Introduction
Part 1: Provocations of Design
1. Touchstones of Practice: Consideration from the Theatre Workshop Floor
?George Belliveau and Christine Sinclair
2. Act-ive P-art-icipation: Social Inclusion and Drama Research
?Jo Raphael and Kelly Freebody
3. Learning on the Ground: How Our Research Stories Teach Us about Ethics
?Kathleen Gallagher and Richard Sallis
Part 2: Provocations of Method
4. A Research Tango in Three Moves: Gendering the Drama Research Space
?Christine Hatton and Richard Sallis
5. Three Arts Based Researchers Walk into a Forum: A Conversation on the Opportunities and Challenges in Embodied and Performed Research
?Nisha Sajnani, Richard Sallis and Joe Salvatore
6. Surrender, Pedagogy Ambiguity, Research and Impossibility: Cats @ Play
?Joe Norris, Lynn Fels and Yasmine Kandil
7. Participation in Participatory Drama-Based Research
?Diane Conrad and Janinka Greenwood
Part 3: Provocations of representation
8. How Do Culture and Power Work in and through Drama Research?: An e-Conversation Between
?Selina Busby and Brian S. Heap
9. Representation, Authenticity and the Graphic Novel in Arts Education Inquiry: Transubstantiating Research
?Robin Pascoe and Peter R. Wright
10. Defiant Bodies: A Punk Rock Crip Queer Cabaret: Cripping and Queering Emancipatory Disability Research
?Emma Selwyn and Liselle Terret
Part 4: Provocations of practice
11. We Need to Talk about Theory: Rethinking the Theory/Practice Dichotomy in Pursuit of Rigour in Drama Research
?Helen Cahill, Viv Aitken and Christine Hatton
12. The Stories That Made Us: A Duoethnography on Becoming Reflective Drama Researchers
?Christine Hatton and Peter Duffy
13. Research and Its Impact: A Dramatic Cyber-Dialogue in Three Scenes
?John O'Toole and Peter Duffy
14. Lessons Learned: Provocations of Practice
?Allison Anders, Peter Duffy, Christine Hatton and Richard Sallis
15. Afterword: Well Begun Is Half Done
?Brad Haseman