Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice

Peter Duffy, Ed.D. (2014), University of South Carolina, is an award winning associate professor and heads the Master of Arts in Teaching program in theatre education. His research includes cognition and the arts, culturally responsive pedagogies and performed research.Christine Hatton, Ph.D. (2005), University of Sydney, is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Newcastle. Her scholarly interests include drama, arts education and gender in education.She was awarded the 2014 Faculty of Education and Arts Early Career Research Fellowship.Richard Sallis, Ph.D., University of Melbourne, is a senior lecturer in arts education at the that university's Graduate School of Education. His research includes arts education, gender and identity, and professional theatre for/with youth. He was the 2012 AATE Distinguished Dissertation Award recipient.

"Drama Research Methods: Provocations of Practice is an outstanding and important book. This engaging, well-crafted, and highly original collection makes significant contributions to performance studies and arts-based research. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how theatre arts can merge with teaching and research practices. I applaud the editors and contributors. Bravo!" - Patricia Leavy, PhD, author of Method Meets Art (Guilford Publications, 2009) and Low-Fat Love (Sense, 2015)"What the reader comes away with [after reading this book] is an unusual peek behind the curtain of arts-based educational research (…) In Drama Research Methods, the editors crafted a text that had a clear intention – there would be no more hero narratives or success stories, which so frequently pervade educational drama research publications (202). (…) Duffy, Hatton, and Sallis have effectively closed the circle, marrying methods and practice in a way that more accurately reflects the field." - Jonathan P. Jones in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (2021).

• Foreword: The Both/and of Performance ResearchAnne M. HarrisIntroductionPart 1: Provocations of Design1. Touchstones of Practice: Consideration from the Theatre Workshop FloorGeorge Belliveau and Christine Sinclair2. Act-ive P-art-icipation: Social Inclusion and Drama ResearchJo Raphael and Kelly Freebody3. Learning on the Ground: How Our Research Stories Teach Us about EthicsKathleen Gallagher and Richard SallisPart 2: Provocations of Method4. A Research Tango in Three Moves: Gendering the Drama Research SpaceChristine Hatton and Richard Sallis5. Three Arts Based Researchers Walk into a Forum: A Conversation on the Opportunities and Challenges in Embodied and Performed ResearchNisha Sajnani, Richard Sallis and Joe Salvatore6. Surrender, Pedagogy Ambiguity, Research and Impossibility: Cats @ PlayJoe Norris, Lynn Fels and Yasmine Kandil7. Participation in Participatory Drama-Based ResearchDiane Conrad and Janinka GreenwoodPart 3: Provocations of representation8. How Do Culture and Power Work in and through Drama Research?: An e-Conversation BetweenSelina Busby and Brian S. Heap9. Representation, Authenticity and the Graphic Novel in Arts Education Inquiry: Transubstantiating ResearchRobin Pascoe and Peter R. Wright10. Defiant Bodies: A Punk Rock Crip Queer Cabaret: Cripping and Queering Emancipatory Disability ResearchEmma Selwyn and Liselle TerretPart 4: Provocations of practice11. We Need to Talk about Theory: Rethinking the Theory/Practice Dichotomy in Pursuit of Rigour in Drama ResearchHelen Cahill, Viv Aitken and Christine Hatton12. The Stories That Made Us: A Duoethnography on Becoming Reflective Drama ResearchersChristine Hatton and Peter Duffy13. Research and Its Impact: A Dramatic Cyber-Dialogue in Three ScenesJohn O’Toole and Peter Duffy14. Lessons Learned: Provocations of PracticeAllison Anders, Peter Duffy, Christine Hatton and Richard Sallis15. Afterword: Well Begun Is Half DoneBrad Haseman