This paper reflects on issues arising from a research-informed learning and teaching project intended to enable student teachers of Modern Languages (MLs) to experiment with the use of unscripted 'process drama' in their classroom practice. The idea that process drama could become part of the language teacher's repertoire has been in circulation for some time (Kao and
She has long experience in teaching and training both on the public and the private sector. In the academia she has acted as an organizer/facilitator in workshop sessions at the Academy of Management conferences for CMS, MED and TLC and at the International Doctoral Consortium in Halifax, Canada. Pedagogically and through research she wants to foster critical, reflexive and dialogical approaches that take both organizational and human interests seriously.
Purpose-In exploring the impact of reflective and work applied approaches, the authors are curious how vivid new insights and collective "Eureka" momentums occur. These momentums can be forces for work communities to gain competitive advantages. However, the authors know little of how learning is actively involved in the processing of creating new insights and how such a turning to learning mode (Pässilä and Owens, 2016) can be facilitated. In the light of cultural studies and art education, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the method of dramatising characters (DC) in a specific innovation culture can be facilitated. In this viewpoint, the authors are suggesting one approach for this type of turning to learning which the authors call Beyond Text, outlining its theoretical underpinnings, its co-creative development and its application. Design/methodology/approach-In this Beyond Text context, the authors are introducing the method of DC and the method of iStory both of which are the authors' own design based on the theory of the four existing categories of a research-based theatre. Findings-The findings of this viewpoint paper are that both iStory as well as DC methods are useful and practical learning facilitation processes and platforms that can be adopted for use in organisations for promoting reflexivity. Especially they can act as a bridge between various forms of knowing and consummate the other knowledge types (experiential, practical and propositional) in a way that advances practice-based innovation. Originality/value-The originality and value of iStory and DC is that they can be utilised as dialogical evaluation methods when traditional evaluation strategies and predetermined indicators are unusable.
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