Drama as art, pedagogy and practice: A practice-based framework for primary teachers

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dc.contributor.authorMcEntee, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-09T14:38:27Z
dc.date.available2026-09-09T14:38:27Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-31
dc.description.abstractThis paper introduces a practice-based drama framework developed in response to the evolving educational landscape in Ireland. Recent curricular reforms, including the redeveloped Primary Arts Curriculum (NCCA, 2025), have repositioned drama as a distinct art form while continuing to value its capacity for integration across learning areas. Drawing on the findings of Teachers Talking Drama (McEntee & Finneran, 2025) and grounded in qualitative research with primary teachers, the proposed framework addresses long-standing challenges around teacher confidence, clarity, and enactment. It offers a flexible, accessible model built on three interdependent pillars: drama as collaborative process, drama as a transdisciplinary tool, and drama as artistic practice. In doing so, it responds to teachers’ desire for concrete strategies that are context-responsive and aligned with curriculum aims. The framework aims to reposition drama not as a marginal or enrichment activity, but as a foundational methodology that supports expressive, critical, and inclusive learning across the primary school.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationMcEntee, L. (2025) 'Drama as art, pedagogy and practice: A practice-based framework for primary teachers', Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 19(2), pp. 2-21. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.19.2.1en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/scenario.19.2.1
dc.identifier.endpage21
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19223
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectDrama educationen
dc.subjectTransdisciplinary educationen
dc.subjectArts integrationen
dc.subjectDrama as an art formen
dc.subjectCreative methodologiesen
dc.titleDrama as art, pedagogy and practice: A practice-based framework for primary teachersen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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