Viewing children as' experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative
framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making …

This book draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary
performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated …

In the first conceptual overview of current practices and debates in theatre education, Helen
Nicholson explores the contribution that professional theatre practitioners make to the …

The Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theatre and Performance provides the first
authoritative alphabetical guide to the theatre and performance of the last 30 years …

This paper discusses possible correspondences between neuroscientific findings and
phenomenologically informed methodologies in the investigation of kinesthetic empathy in …

Researchers who seek to capture and analyse audiences' responses are facing a dilemma.
In a political climate beleaguered by efforts to delegitimize expertise, what are the …

The purpose of this study was to explore how preschool teachers use music and identify the
types of music activities available to children in their classrooms. Preschool teachers (N …

There is no one 'right'way to study theatre audiences. Interviews, focus groups, post-show
questionnaires and attitudinal surveys, historiographical and archival methods, social media …

This paper argues that consumers of popular culture engage in practices of 'ethical cultural
consumption', whereby the consumption of cultural texts is imagined as having the potential …

Arts impact evaluation is the subject of widespread criticism, ranging from a detailed critique
of methodology to a wholesale rejection of the very purpose of the endeavour. In particular, it …