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The role of this open access peer reviewed journal is twofold. Firstly, it provides a platform for the publication, and therefore for the development, of research within New Zealand in the fields of drama, music, and dance, as they relate to education in it widest sense. Secondly, it allows us in New Zealand to contribute to international dialogues in these fields. It therefore bodes well for the future of our journal that, as well as local contributions, we have two contributions from people who been early, and continuing, pioneers in the development of the scholarship of the arts in education. We hope in future issues to have many more.
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E-Journal Publication Details
Volume 2Part of the E-journal: New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education: Nga Mahi a Rehia; Edition 2. E-Journal General Editor: Janinka Greenwood, Chair of Review Panel, University of Canterbury; Susan Battye, Executive Editor, Drama New Zealand
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Editorial Review Panel
Volume 2The list of those on the e-journal Editorial Review Panel
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Editorial
Volume 2
Welcome to the second volume of The New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education: Nga Mahi a Rehia. The mission of the journal is to provide a platform for the publication, and therefore for the development, of research within New Zealand in the fields of drama, music, and dance, as they relate to education in it widest sense.
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Wan Smolbag’s Theatre in Vanuatu and the New Zealand Connection
Volume 2
This paper examines the connection that exists between a Vanuatu based theatre, film and television company called Wan Smolbag and one of its donor countries, New Zealand.
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Devising Theatre from Personal Narratives: Investigating Tensions for Participants in a New Zealand Community Theatre Experience
Volume 2
Devising a piece of community theatre is an exciting undertaking for all involved, yet this collaborative process is not without its tensions. This paper explores the tensions identified by participants arising from the use of personal narratives in a community theatre event that focused on personal and cultural identities.
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Finding the Balance: Teachers as Recontextualising Agents in the Struggle between Classical and Popular Music in the Secondary School Curriculum
Volume 2
This paper considers seven experienced New Zealand secondary school music teachers’ perceptions of the place of classical and popular music within education and applies Bernstein’s concept of recontextualisation to their discussion of curriculum decision making.
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The Tempest in the “Third Space”: Finding a Place and Value for Shakespeare’s Play in a Bicultural Context
Volume 2
The bicultural space is constantly shifting and transforming. Our New Zealand of the last two or three decades has been marked by a visible growth of cross-cultural interaction… this kind of dynamic and evolving interaction (is called) “the third space”
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A Slice of Theatre Archaeology: Mulgan’s For Love of Appin and Other Plays
Volume 2
Mulgan’s play, For Love of Appin, has been dubbed the first New Zealand play. This article examines the play and its historic context, offering the concept of theatre archaeology as a process for not only the play as an art work in its own right, but also as an artefact that speaks of the socio-cultural context in which it was made.
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A Youth Offender Said: I Liked Acting and Devising a Scene because It Was about Cars
Volume 2
A New Zealand residential youth justice school project researched the potential of drama to model a co-operative learning approach and quality teaching to produce successful learning outcomes for students. It involved the implementation of a one week drama programme facilitated by a university drama lecturer.
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Essential Identity: the Beginnings of an Exploratory Journey into the Worlds of Identity and Doctoral Studies
Volume 2
This article discusses different theories and interpretations of identity, and applies these debates to two plays Angels (2009) by Pacific Underground and the Court Theatre, directed by Robert Gilbert and The Bellbird (2009) performed by the National Academy Of Singing And Dramatic Art (NASDA), directed by Stephanie McKellar-Smith.
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Fostering Cross-Cultural Understanding through Singing – the View from a UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning
Volume 2This article was first presented as a paper at the Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VII July 2, 2009
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Book Review – Tirairaka: Dance Education in New Zealand Schools by Jan Bolwell
Volume 2
Jan Bolwell’s Tirairaka: Dance Education in New Zealand Schools provides readers with a tasteful, succinct and easy to digest account of the undulations of dance education throughout New Zealand, 1900 – 2008.
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E-Journal Publications Details
Volume 1Part of the E-journal: New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education: Nga Mahi a Rehia; Edition 1. E-Journal General Editor: Janinka Greenwood, Chair of Review Panel, University of Canterbury; Susan Battye, Executive Editor, Drama New Zealand
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Editorial
Volume 1Matariki hunga nui. As we were finally collating this first issue of New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education: Ngā Mahi ā Rēhia for e-launch, we celebrated the season of Matariki, or new year in the Maori calendar. The star constellation of Matariki, or the Pleiades, rises when winter is at its deepest and the days begin to lengthen.
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Editorial Essay
Volume 1
Drama New Zealand is proud to have initiated the publication of a new series of free e-journals entitled the New Zealand Journal of Research in Performing Arts and Education: Nga Mahi a Rehia. This is the second e-journal that I have overseen as an editor, the first with Te Wananga O Aotearoa and now as a partnership with the University of Canterbury.
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About
Volume 1An open-access, peer-reviewed academic e-journal published by Drama New Zealand in association with the The University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Launch Date: 19 August 2008. The launch takes place on the web via live links with several universities in NZ and other institutions across the world.
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Shades of Blankness in a Pale Palette
Volume 1
It is not what we see that inspires awe, but the knowledge of what lies beyond our view. –Robert Falcon Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery (1905)
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Break the Cycle: Report of a Project
Volume 1
This paper reports on the process and outcomes of a theatre devising project – A Child is Born – with Year 12 & 13 classes in a school in the north of New Zealand.
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Pedagogical Learnings of Borat for Make Benefit Glorious Community of Drama Teachers: What Teachers Can Learn from Borat about Frame, Position and Power When Working in Role
Volume 1
One of the most exciting strategies available to teachers of drama and indeed any learning area is that of ‘teacher-in-role’.
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Music Education in a New Key: The Dissonance of Competence, Connectedness, Culture and Curriculum
Volume 1
The worth of teaching and learning in music is again under scrutiny. Challenges to the canon of so-called western art music, the demands of all cultures to be heard musically as well as politically, the rise of music technologies, and the requirements of the soon to be implemented (2010) document The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) present a mish-mash of constructs.
