Since the end of the 1980s in the NIE4--Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore--in Asia, progressive cultural and educational policies have developed along with tremendous economic growth, and a belief in the value of cultivating excellent human resources has provided the fertile ground to plant the seeds for Drama Education and Applied…

This paper discusses the use of applied drama within the microblogging platform "Twitter" as a method to increase students' social media and news literacy. Online news sites are increasingly using "Twitter" as a source for eyewitness accounts of events or public opinion. "Twitter" offers users a simple way to publicly broadcast or "tweet" about…

This paper explores the design of virtual and physical learning spaces developed for students of drama and theatre studies. What can we learn from the traditional drama workshop that will inform the design of drama and theatre spaces created in technology-mediated learning environments? The authors examine four examples of spaces created for…

Ensemble-building is a practice within drama education that is understood to be a powerful metaphor for democratic living. However, this ongoing work in classrooms also demands that teachers understand and enact a broad, interrelated range of knowledge, skills, and values that support participants' encounters with conflict and representations of…

The article's main concern is to analyse theoretical and artistic factors influencing the attempt by a group of undergraduate students (at the University of Warwick, UK) to produce a "performative mapping" of the city of Venice. In other words, it asks what kind of performance-based strategies might usefully be applied in the process of…

In this article I attempt to interrogate some of the issues around the assessment of live work. I use a range of theories, particularly Ranciere's notion of the "aesthetic regime" of art, to suggest a three-pronged ontological approach to assessment that seeks to avoid the dangers of Bourdieu's and Passeron's concept of reproduction, and which…

Compulsory citizenship tests and ceremonies are some of the ways in which new British citizens must prove their commitment to their adopted nationality. Existing citizens, on the other hand, have to make no such outward show of commitment; neither do they have to prove any level of knowledge about the UK in order to claim their citizenship. These…

Exploring difficult issues can be the domain of drama and theatre. This article examines the processes of researching and workshopping an exploration of HIV-AIDS by a group of 20 undergraduate university students using playbuilding techniques. The importance of hegemony and the assimilation process become key issues in this classroom drama…

As a new century unfurls, the "downsizing" and continuing marginalisation of theatre programmes in American higher education correspond to two curricular trends. First, the coupling of fiscal crises and the "back-to-basics" movement has prevailed at all levels of education since the late 1970s. Since then, secondly, students intentions for the…

Discusses how a projective technique known as "cartoon tests" can be used by drama educators for programme evaluation and for learning-needs analysis and monitoring. Provides findings in which cartoon tests were used as one of several methods to explore student perceptions of a drama-based marketing subject at an Australian university. (SG)

Focuses on one phase of a five-year reflective study that involved a reflective play-building project. Outlines the working processes of the play-building group and discusses approaches to data collection and analysis before drawing conclusions about the key characteristics of aesthetic engagement. Concludes by drawing attention to aspects of…

Documents a pilot study of the perceptions of two L1 Xhosa acting students and their teachers about learning to act in L2 English in an L1 English university drama department in South Africa. Seeks to identify perceptions of "good acting," and the degree to which these are contingent on perceptions of "good English" in theatre performance. Finds…

Gives a personal account of the authors' experiences as ex-patriots in Malawi, using theatre for education and development at a time when art, entertainment and education may have been the last thing on their audiences' minds. Describes how they developed and rehearsed a play and had plans to take it to 10 villages. (SG)

Discusses Jo Trowsdale's case for "Reconsidering the Role of the Artist in Initial Teacher Training (ITT)" (RIDE, 2002). Notes that it argues for the centrality of engaging with different models of practice and different kinds of artists as a way of creating more equitable arts education experiences for all young people. Considers recent national…

Explores a key concept in drama education, that of trust. Aims to demystify the practice of trust in relation to drama education. Challenges the history of liberal thought, which regarded all sentiments as equally morally trustworthy. Argues that trust is dependent on context and is continually negotiated and re-negotiated in action, as a…