Adam's sociodrama article

[REGINA SEWELL]

Adam,

I'm in the process of revamping my classes for next year and am planning to incorporate more sociodrama when possible.  Where can I find a copy of the paper on the same?

thanks,
regina sewell

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> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:23:07 -0500
> From: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
> Subject: Re: Process drama
> To: <peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au>
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> Dear Peter, 
>      In preparing my anthology of different approaches to drama 
> (Interactive & Improvisational Drama), one component was 
> applications in education. There are five streams I've discerned:
>     1. Role playing in education.
>     2. Creative Drama, involving teaching kids how to imagine, 
> spontaneity training, leading to theatre games.
>     3. Theatre-in-Education, with professional actors or a 
> trained troupe putting on a show and then (often) interacting with 
> the audience.
>      4. Process drama. Numerous books, mainly out of UK, a thread 
> of pioneers, Brian Way, Dorothy Heathcote, especially; Gavin 
> Bolton, Cecily O'Neill, others. The teacher sets up an imaginary 
> situation and draws the students along in order to teach them 
> about history, science, planning, integrated other subjects. Some 
> support from the late Richard Courtney and others in Canada. There 
> are a number of leaders today in Australia! 
>       5. Actual sociodrama for education---about which I've 
> recently published a paper---more aimed at college classes or 
> graduate or adult studies.
> 
>  There's a big conference in Hong Kong this summer put on by the 
> International Drama in Education Association (IDEA). I went to 
> their last conference 3 years ago in Ottawa. Mainly process-drama 
> kinds of folks, with an admixture of some other things. A little 
> drama therapy, or its influence.
> 
>      My latest thinking, deriving from my editing experience, is 
> that overall the greatest potential for Moreno's work is for it to 
> influence, fertilize, enrich, and deepen the aforementioned 
> approaches, plus its applications also for folks doing other kinds 
> of drama--- Playback Theatre, bibliodrama, Theatre of the 
> Oppressed, museum theatre, and so forth. Psychodrama doesn't need 
> to be kept together as a single package, to be bought or not only 
> as a whole complex. Role theory, sociometric methods, 
> improvisational theatre, etc., all have a potential to be applied 
> creatively and mixed creatively with other approaches, and thus 
> have far broader of an impact.
>      
>        So, in summary, I'm not clear about your final question--- 
> levels experience of teachers.. 
>  People are teaching process drama in some schools of education. 
> There is no getting into the personalities of the students, no 
> psychodrama. Yet I imagine that there might be room for enriching 
> that process by adding doubling (in role), role reversal, and some 
> other component techniques, etc., as in bibliodrama. 
> 
>        warmly, adam
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Peter Howie 
>  To: list at grouptalkweb.org 
>  Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:40 PM
>  Subject: Process drama
> 
> 
>  Hi all,
> 
>  I've recently come across the term "process drama" used in 
> educational contexts and wondered if others were more familiar 
> with it. It seem to be a sociodramatic process and I am thinking 
> in terms of the levels experience of teachers directing this and 
> whether or not there are training opportunities for some. 
> 
>  Cheers
> 
>  Peter Howie
>  Brisbane, Australia 
> 
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