Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This piece of writing considers the ways in which the teacher adopting the process drama approach of a narrator role can promote student agency when co-constructing fictional work. Drawing upon transcripts and stills from moments of classroom learning in drama, and student discussions from semi-structured group interviews, I examine what happened when I used a narrator role as part of lessons on Darkwood Manor, a sequence of gothic drama, with three different Year 7 drama classes. Considering the conception of knowledge and direct instruction in the Department for Education’s Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework, I discuss what I learnt about a different view of learning through lessons and conversations with my students; one in which the teacher works with the students to make meaning.
Source: Changing English
Author: Nick Kitchener-Bentley
Institution: University College London
Language: English
Topic: Creative Drama in Education
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4416298970