Editorial: Practicing Researcher and Researching Practitioner
Jack Shu
The triennial grand event in the Applied Drama community, the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association World Congress (IDEA Congress), was held in Beijing in July 2024. Tied up with a performance at my university, I was unable to attend. Meanwhile, I happen to be appointed by the Hong Kong Drama/Theatre and Education Forum (TEFO) this year as the journal editor again, taking over from Dr. Pansy Tam, who has dedicated herself selflessly to the editorial work for a total of 11 years since 2013 (A special shout-out to Dr. Muriel Law for sharing the heavy workload from 2013 to 2021). Pansy suggested that the journal could seize the opportunity to publish a special feature on the IDEA Congress right after its recent closure, so I had the privilege to peek at some of the conference papers before our readers, sort of consolation to me for missing the chance to be there. As I recall, when the IDEA Congress was hosted by TEFO for the first time in Hong Kong in 2007, we, with our limited experience, managed to successfully organise the largest drama education conference in the world through cautious and humble efforts combined. The excellent essays published back then were compiled in Planting Trees of Drama with Global Vision in Local Knowledge: IDEA 2007 Dialogues (Shu & Chan, 2009). 17 years later, the IDEA Congress returned to China. Readers, either present in the capital or not last year, can revisit or catch a glimpse of the event through the texts of our selected essays.
Contents
Keynote
Making Theatre A Source for Learning, Imagination and Creativity
Jonothan Neelands
Page 9-24
Paper
“Routes in Light and Darkness”: An Experience of Collective Creation in Greece
Martha Katsaridou, Koldo Vío
Page 25-50
Conference Review
Yi-man Au, Jeffrey Tan
Page 51-62
Acknowledgement
IDEA and TEFO: Gratitude for a Globally Collaborative History
Page 63-65
Research Article
The Facilitation of Social and Personal Development of Forum Theatre in Hong Kong Community
Terra Cham-yin Ting
Page 67-100
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