16.022 - Critically Dramatic Conversations: Complications in Drama/Theater Research for Social Justice and Equity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium shares tensions across four IRB approved studies, each with unique research methodology, which explore how drama/theatre, as a critical pedagogy, may subvert hegemonic institutionalized ways of knowing. The varied research paradigms and embodied positions are problematized through these questions: How may researcher ideology shape drama/theatre research to create spaces for emergence and revelations about our (or others') pre-set positions? How is drama/theatre research in conversation with local emergent cultural knowledges? How might drama/theatre research shape the way "learning" is understood and valued? Each practitioner/scholar critically reflects upon the strengths and deficiencies within their data collection and analysis tools. Our hope is to further the
methodological conversation about drama/theatre as a space for radical personal, social and educational change.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Chair

• Gustave John Weltsek-Medina, Indiana University

Papers

• Critical Performative Pedagogy: A Dramatic Pursuit of "Dissociation" - Gustave John Weltsek-Medina, Indiana University; Clare Hamoor, Blue School

• The Value of Quantitative Collection and Analysis in Drama Education Research - Carmine Tabone

• Toward Culturally Responsive Research Practice: Studying the Indigenous Cultures Institute Arts Program - Roxanne L. Schroeder-Arce, The University of Texas - Austin

• Arts-Based Research Between Literacies - Elizabeth Murray, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Discussant

• Brian W. Edmiston, The Ohio State University - Columbus