| Author | Esther Fitzpatrick, Christine Rubie-Davies |
| e.ftzpatrick@auckland.ac.nz | |
| Affiliation | The University of Auckland, Auckland |
| Article Language | English |
APA Citation
Fitzpatrick, E., Rubie-Davies, C. (2013). Entangled identities: drama as a method of inquiry. The Journal of Drama and Theatre Education in Asia, 4, 25-50
Abstract
This paper tells the story of using process drama to “create spaces to encourage multicultural conversations” in response to the “ever increasing globalisation of education”. A little over ten years ago Ackroyd and Pilkington redesigned and implemented a drama work, the purpose of which was to provide a drama for children to challenge essentialist assumptions and actively construct their own identities in the UK. Following the work of Ackroyd and Pilkington, the purpose of this study was to use drama as method to generate data through exploring and listening to children in a postcolonial situation. I tell this methodological story drawing on Clandinin and Connelly’s three dimensional inquiry space as a framework and weaving the children’s small stories throughout as they travelled with me; in and out of a fictive world.
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