Theatre-as-research: a dynamic methodology for arts-based inquiry

Vallack, Jocene

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While teaching research methodology at James Cook University in Australia, it became apparent that the theatre devised from story narratives, which I had been doing with drama students for decades, could be viewed as a distinct type of research methodology. In this chapter, I shall present a snapshot of a recent case, which uses theatre to teach and present research. From a pedagogical perspective, Theatre as Research engages the university students in learning about research through active interviewing, data analysis and interpretation of data via a play script that is acted out. It is dynamic research, in that it is characterized by vigorous collection methods involving the collection of first-person, narrative data. This data is then synthesised into a play, using group improvisations. For the research students, there is a sense of purpose and a satisfaction of playing a part in the change and development of narrative into theatre.

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Innovation in the Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards: An Anthology of Case Histories 2017.

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978-1-911218-42-5

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Academic Conferences and Publishing International

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Sonning Common, UK

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