The Journal for Drama-in-Education
The Journal for Drama in Education is the journal of the National Association for the Teaching of Drama. It publishes both theoretical articles and those that record practical work that:
Engage with all aspects of Drama in Education;
Reflect and promote agreed policies of NATD, particularly with regard to its commitment to internationalism and child-centred education;
Comment on educational and political matters that affect young people and those who work with them.
All members receive free hard copies by post and access to the digital archive as a part of their membership.
What is the Journal?
Latest Journal Content
The most recent copies of the Journal for Drama in Education can be found in the Journal Digital Archive, accessible to all members of the Association. Preview content of the latest editions can be found below.
Issue 39.1
This Issue includes David Davis’ notes in preparation for the 2024 Conference. There is also a vital contribution from Nader Wahbeh, Education in Gaza, which describes the astonishing work that is being undertaken under terrifying conditions for both young people and their teachers. Oates provides a descriptive and theoretical analysis of her set text workshop based on Miller’s The Crucible. The Issue also includes David Davis’ memories of Edward Bond as well as a contextualised republishing of Bond’s Keynote address to the 1989 Conference, The Fight for Drama - The Fight for Education.
Issue 38.2
This Issues includes an extraordinary collaboration between four of the delegates at the Dorothy Heathcote Now Conference in Aberdeen in 2023. Raja’ Farah and Mutasem Atrash made the challenging journey from Palestine and worked with Maggie Hulson and Annamarie Bayley to try to make sense of our world. David Davis contributes his most recent thinking on role and its place in our work. While there are two further papers (with updates) given at the 2019 Dublin Conference, “Who am I? Who can tell me who I am?” Tim Taylor updates us on The Mantle of the Expert Network and Kostas Amoiropoulos reports of the work of Site B. There are two book reviews. This Issue also includes two tributes to Edward Bond on 3rd March 2024.
Issue 38.1
This Issue includes David Davis book launch address for the publication arising from the 2019 Dublin Conference, “Who am I? Who can tell me who I am?” It also includes pieces by Adam Bethlenfalvy in Hungary exploring the development of Drama in Education through Edward Bond’s work and Chris Cooper exploring the power of Theatre in Education. Both of these were papers given in Dublin. It also includes pieces by Bob Selderslaghs in the Netherlands, Brian Woolland and Margaret Branscombe.
Issue 37.2
This Issue includes two further articles from the 2019 Dublin Conference, “Who am I? Who can tell me who I am?” Selen Korad Birkiye provides a perspective from Turkey whilst Guy Williams offers a view from the UK. David Allen brings his academic analysis to the work of Dorothy Heathcote and reconnects us with her genius. Lewis Frost teases us with an extract from a much wider interview with Edward Bond.
This Issue includes a wide-ranging interview by Chris Cooper with Roger Wooster. It stands as a fitting tribute to his life.
Issue 37.1
This Issue asks the question, How have we let the children down? The articles explore the question from a wide variety of different perspectives as well as offering profound solutions. Michael Rosen has offered us a poem; Matthew Milburn interrogates the White Paper; Viv Cohen Papier and Lex Butler provide a viewpoint from a Pupil Referral Unit; and from our rich past, Dorothy Heathcote, Gavin Bolton and Geoff Gilham offer ways forward.
This Issue also celebrates the life of John Airs, a long-standing member and conscience of the Association.
Issue 36.2
This Special Issue marks the 2019 Dublin Conference, “Who am I? Who can tell me who I am?” It was an international conference exploring the importance of the social and political in young people’s Drama as well as celebrating David Davis, 80th birthday. It includes a series of fascinating articles which are effectively an intellectual correspondence between David Davis, Bill Roper and Konstantinos Amoiropoulos. It is also a memorial to Bill Roper, a long-standing friend of the Association.
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Issue 36.1
This Issue has been created as a follow-up to the Dorothy Now Conference, 8th - 10th October 2022. It includes pieces by David Allen, Cecily O’Neill, Brian Edmiston, Iona Towler-Evans, Vaishali Chakravarty, Sandra Hesten, Bogusia Matusiak-Varley, Eleni Kanira and Sarah Mills. Maggie Hulson has also curated an invaluable overview of articles written by Dorothy Heathcote and published by The Journal for Drama in Education.
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Issue 35.2
This Issue has been specially created to accompany the Dorothy Heathcote Now International Conference, 8th - 10th October 2021. It includes articles from current practitioners, exploring the relevance of Heathcote’s Four models to forge links between schooling and society: Drama used to explore people; Mantle of the Expert; Rolling Role; and The Commission Model.
Issue 35.1
A Journal that explores the Living Through Drama methodology, NATD Chair Liam Harris reflects upon Conference 2020 with a workshop outline for Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck accompanied by a re-print of Dorothy Heathcote’s writing on internal coherence in drama teaching.
Issue 34.2
Published in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, this issue captures the work of the Association through a time of national crisis. With contributions from Matthew Milburn, Liam Harris, Maggie Hulson, Ellen Green, Guy Williams and Roger Wooster.
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The Journal Archive
The Journal was known as BROADSHEET from its inception in 1980 until Vol. 16. The NATD’s digital archive contains back copies of the Journal for Drama in Education and is accessible to all members of the Association. You can also purchase one off hard copies of available Journals from The Journal Shop.
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The Editorial Committee
Maggie Hulson
Chair/Convenor
Professional Mentor, York.
Guy Williams
Website/Publicity
Former Drama Teacher, Australia.