IDIERI 6: The 6th International Drama in Education Research Institute, 2009 Sydney

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TUESDAY 14 july, 2009

4.30pm	Registration
6.00pm	Opening Keynote	Dr. Anne Marshall
	Welcome Reception

Wednesday 15 july, 2009

8.30am	Registration
9.15am	Keynote Panel	Drama Research Futures: Emergent issues in Drama Education Research and some ways forward? Brad Haseman, Jonothan Neelands, Helen Nicholson and Juliana Saxton \| Chaired by Peter O'Connor - International \|Listen here
10.30am	Morning Tea
11.00am	Paper	Pamela Bowell, Brian Heap \| United Kingdom / Jamaica \| Drama is not a dirty word \|Listen here
	Paper	Val Johnson \| Australia \| Researching the drama curriculum \|Listen here
	Paper	Chris Holland \| New Zealand \| Process drama and child abuse: Empathy and safety
	Paper	Linda Lang \| Canada \| The highs and lows of devising theatre in the drama classroom
	Paper	Robin Pascoe \| Australia \| Drama education: Framing possible futures \|Listen here
	Keyhole	Diane Conrad \| Canada \| Performing incarceration: Applied theatre with incarcerated youth
	Keyhole	Brian Lighthill \| United Kingdom \| The Shakespeare "Whoosh" - The impact of selected Shakespeare stories as a tool to explore Citizenship with 11-14 year old learners
11.45am	Paper	Kirsty McGeoch, John Hughes \| Australia \| Digital storytelling, drama and tertiary TESOL \|Listen here
	Paper	Jack Shu \| Hong Kong \| Teacher as Actor?
	Paper	Mark Vicars, Tarquam McKenna \| Australia \| Drama as a way of knowing
	Paper	Ross Prior \| United Kingdom \| ‘HE for me...?’: Researching drama as a tool for university
	Paper	Monica Prendergast \| United States of America \| The dramatized curriculum: A philosophical inquiry…. \|Listen here
12.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Research Hub 1	Kathleen Gallagher and Christine Hatton \| Performances of gender in/through theatre practice and research
	Research Hub 2	Penny Bundy and Julie Dunn \| Well ….you know you're engaged when….?????
	Research Hub 3	Laura McCammon and Aud Berggraf Saebo \| Researchers without borders...
	Research Hub 4	Marcia Pompeo-Nogueira and Tim Prentki \| Community theatre and change
3.30pm	Afternoon Tea	Book Launch \| Michael Anderson and Miranda Jefferson \| Teaching the Screen: Film education for generation next (Allen & Unwin)
4.00pm	Paper	Carole Miller, Juliana Saxton \| Canada \| Happily teetering in the midst of chaos
	Paper	Logamurthie Athiemoolam \| South Africa \| The relevance of drama-in-education: A case study\|Listen here
	Paper	Helen Hallissey \| Ireland \| Do pictures speak louder than words?
	Paper	Carol Carter \| Australia \| Wearing two caps: Potential tensions
	Paper	Brian Joyce, Ray Kelly \| Australia \| Continuing dialogues: Motivation and action… Parallels across 200 years
	Keyhole	Warren Nebe \| South Africa \| Building contexts for transformation: The case study of Drama for life
	Panel	Jaime Beck, George Belliveau, Diane Conrad, Graham Lea, Amanda Wager \| Canada \| Exploring a Shakespearean journey through research-based theatre
4.45pm	Paper	C. Sinclair, P. Wales, J. Bird, K. Donelan \| Australia \| Constructions of meaning in performance ethnography
	Paper	Michael Carklin \| Wales \| Applied drama: the challenges of contemporary science
	Paper	Kentaro Miyamoto \| Japan / Canada \| History of drama in education in Canada (Ontario)
	Paper	Erika Piazzoli \| Australia \| Process drama: building intercultural awareness
	Paper	Peter Wright, David Palmer \| Australia \| I am LUCKY because I get to do creative things \|Listen here
5.30pm	Poster Presentations

THursday 16 july, 2009

9.00am	Registration
9.30am	Keynote Presentation	Re-thinking the fiction/reality boundary: investigating the use of drama in HIV prevention projects in Vietnam. Dr Helen Cahill, University of Melbourne, Australia \|Listen here
10.30am	Morning Tea
11.00am	Paper	Kelly Freebody \| Australia \| Exploring teacher-student interaction and moral reasoning practices \|Listen here
	Paper	Richard Sallis \| Australia \| The Drama of Boys
	Paper	Lorraine Singh \| South Africa \| Workshopping Xenophobia \|Listen here
	Paper	Mei-Chun Lin \| Taiwan \| Developing a Rubric for the assessment of students’ performance...
	Paper	Joe Winston \| United Kingdom\| Creation, re-creation and the current craze for creativity \|Listen here
	Keyhole	Susan Gibson \| Australia \| The lived experience of a participant in a dramatherapy workshop - INGAMAL GODINGI "That which is hidden from you or that which is revealed to you": Bardi Language from the Kimberley
	Keyhole	John O'Toole, Angela O'Brien, Kate Donelan, Robyn Ewing, John Hughes, Michael Anderson, Bruce Burton, Penny Bundy, Clare Irvine, Noel Jordan \| Australia \| Imagine what this would have been like if it wasn't any good: the TheatreSpace project
11.45am	Paper	Juliana Saxton, Monica Prendergast \| Canada \| Is there an elephant in the room? \|Listen here
	Paper	Jennifer Nicholls, Robyn Philip \| Australia \| Documenting playbuilding through group blogging \|Listen here
	Paper	Norhanim Abdul Samat \| Malaysia \| Process drama and ESL learners
	Paper	Sue Davis \| Australia \| Fresh applications: Exploring contexts, functions …
	Paper	Brian Joyce, Rodney Smith, Paul Coles \| Australia \| The Deadly Dollars Project - A forum theatre pilot for Aboriginal audiences…
12.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Research Hub 1	Kathleen Gallagher and Christine Hatton \| Performances of gender in/through theatre practice and research
	Research Hub 2	Penny Bundy and Julie Dunn \| Well ….you know you're engaged when….?????
	Research Hub 3	Laura McCammon and Aud Berggraf Saebo \| Researchers without borders...
	Research Hub 4	Marcia Pompeo-Nogueira and Tim Prentki \| Community theatre and change
3.30pm	Afternoon Tea	Book Launch \| John O'Toole, Madonna Stinson, Tiina Moore \| Drama and Curriculum: A Giant at the door (Springer)
4.00pm	Paper	Joe Winston, Astrid Cheng \| United Kingdom / Taiwan \| Shakespeare as a Second Language \|Listen here
	Paper	Meg Upton \| Australia \| Articulating the Theatre Experience
	Paper	Paul Sutton \| United Kingdom \| Vlex: Defining langauge and digital behaviour
	Paper	Andrea Baldwin, Deanna Borland-Sentinella \| Australia \| Reporting the rainbow: Wholistic evaluation
	Paper	David J. Leugs \| United States of America \| In Separate Silos: An Ethnography of Race \|Listen here
	Keyhole	Helen Hallissey, Marian O'Callaghan, Eimear Mahon \| Ireland \| 'The Fields of Athenry': Drama and the Cork Arts Circle – A Community of Primary Teacher Learners
	Panel	David Wright, Christine Hatton \| Australia \| The he(art) of the matter: Drama praxis, love and living deeply in the world
4.45pm	Paper	Kathleen Gallagher \| Canada \| Performative moments in the field
	Paper	Peter Wright, Robin Pascoe \| Australia \| Drama as a tool for transforming attitudes…
	Paper	Marit Ulvund \| Norway \| The artistic teachers - findings from a field work \|Listen here
	Paper	Bruce Burton \| Australia \| Integrating drama and peer teaching: conflict management
	Paper	Sally Mackey \| United Kingdom \| Cuckoos in the NEST: Artists in school-places

saturday 18 july, 2009

9.00am	Registration
9.30am	Keynote Panel	Emerging Research Voices: The next generation - International Viv Aitken, Kelly Freebody, Wan-Jung Wang \| Listen here
10.30am	Morning Tea
11.00am	Paper	Laura McCammon \| USA \| Reprise? Reflective Case Studies in Drama/Theatre Teacher Education \|Listen here
	Paper	Aud Berggraf Saebo \| Norway \| How does drama respond to concepts of knowledge and learning? \|Listen here
	Paper	Christine Hatton, Prue Wales \| Australia \| A circus in our own backyard \|Listen here
	Paper	Adrian Wong \| Singapore \| Believing in(to) the profession
	Paper	Sandra Gattenhof \| Australia \| Schools as creative communities
	Paper	Elizabeth Anderson \| New Zealand \| Voices from Delphi
	Keyhole	Jonothan Neelands, Warwick Dobson \| United Kingdom \| Acting together; drama democracy and the tragedy of it all
11.45am	Paper	Amy Petersen Jensen \| United States of America \| ...convergence through transmedia storytelling
	Paper	Rachel King \| United Kingdom \| Creative Collaborative Research with Audiences and Young People \|Listen here
	Paper	Michael Finneran \| Ireland \| Redefining & reshaping the myths of the community of drama as education \|Listen here
	Paper	Lizette Stevenson \| Australia \| Using drama in a middle years science classroom
	Paper	Tiina Moore \| Australia \| The History Centre: A community model of drama
12.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Research Hub 5	Helen Nicholson and Peter O'Connor \| The theoretical and conceptual lenses of research in applied theatre
	Research Hub 6	Warwick Dobson and Jonothan Neelands \| Being Wise… Alone: Drama and Democracy
	Research Hub 7	Pamela Bowell and Brian Heap \| Process Drama Research: Seeking inspiration from the Past; Reflecting on current practice; Visualizing future goals
	Research Hub 8	Joe Winston \| Drama and second language learning
	Research Hub 9	John Carroll and David Cameron \| Drama education and digital technology
3.30pm	Afternoon Tea	Book Launch
4.00pm	Paper	Helen Nicholson \| United Kingdom \| Performing science: Public engagement, poetics and collaborative practices
	Paper	Mark Seton \| Australia \| Designing complex ethical research of “embodied fiction”
	Paper	Judith Ackroyd \| United Kingdom \| A consideration of the use of interview data in performance \|Listen here
	Paper	Marcia Pompeo Nogueira \| Brazil \| Examining past experiences of creating community theatre based on local history
	Paper	Dave Kelman \| Australia \| Developing deeper dialogues: reflexive practitioner drama pedagogy
	Keyhole	Kathleen Gallagher, Barry Freeman, Burcu Ntelioglou, Anne Wessels \| Canada \| On paticipatory and ethnographic approaches to performance research
	Keyhole	Ray Kelly, Amanda Lissarrague \| Australia \| Take the best and leave the rest
4.45pm	Paper	Donelan, Neelands, O'Toole, Permezel, Dickinson \| International collaboration \| Stand up for Shakespeare! With the RSC in research
	Paper	Claire McSwain \| Australia \| Child perceptions of learning in a drama-rich environment
	Paper	Hannah Grainger Clemson \| United Kingdom \| Shifting Power? Researching when non-specialist teachers use 'Drama' \|Listen here
	Paper	Brian Joyce \| Australia \| SITE SOUND MIN(e)D - 'Secrets buried deep'
	Paper	Laura McCammon, Aud Berggraf Saebo \| United States of America \| Finding the 'open door': Understanding creativity

sunday 19 july, 2009

9.00am	Registration
9.30am	Keynote Presentation	I, meta-fellow on the stair Professor John O'Toole, University of Melbourne, Australia \|Listen here
10.30am	Morning Tea
11.00am	Paper	Chryso Charalambous \| Cyprus \| Aesthetic communities in drama classrooms
	Paper	John Carroll \| Australia \| Mantle of the expert and epistemic games
	Paper	Paul Dwyer, Michele Zappavigna, J.R. Martin \| Australia \| Restorative Justice as Social Theatre
	Paper	Selina Busby, Catherine McNamara \| United Kingdom \| The drama research cul-de-sac
	Paper	Joanne O'Mara \| Australia \| Reflection-in-action: Inside the mind of process drama teaching
	Panel	Belarie Zatzman \| Canada \| Constructing a community of memory
11.45am	Paper	Kathleen Gallagher, Ivan Service \| Canada \| Using applied theatre to change school culture \|Listen here
	Paper	David Cameron \| Australia \| Digital despatches: What's hot in videogame and online…
	Paper	Myrto Pigkou-Repousi \| Greece \| Ensemble drama as democratic imagination and action
	Paper	Po chi Tam, Jonothan Neelands \| Hong Kong \| The implications of carnival theory…
	Paper	Julie Dunn \| Australia \| Formalising the role of talk within video data analysis
	Paper	Jo O'Mara, Mary Mooney \| Australia \| Inquiry into creative and transformative practice in the drama classroom
12.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm	Research Hub 5	Helen Nicholson and Peter O'Connor \| The theoretical and conceptual lenses of research in applied theatre
	Research Hub 6	Warwick Dobson and Jonothan Neelands \| Being Wise… Alone: Drama and Democracy
	Research Hub 7	Pamela Bowell and Brian Heap \| Process Drama Research: Seeking inspiration from the Past; Reflecting on current practice; Visualizing future goals
	Research Hub 8	Joe Winston \| Drama and second language learning
	Research Hub 9	John Carroll and David Cameron \| Drama education and digital technology
3.30pm	Afternoon Tea	Book Launch
4.00pm	Closing Plenary	Plenary Panel of Research Hub Leaders \| Listen here
5.30pm	Farewell Reception

Queries may be directed to Nina Goodwin at the Division of Professional Learning.

Selected Papers from this research institute will be published in the leading Routledge journal, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, and in the Applied Theatre Researcher / The International Drama /Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) Journal.

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