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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 1
Matariki 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.
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Acts of Hospitality
Volume 1
In this short paper, the authors raise two ideas: 1) the realization that the classroom is one of the last places where we can practice social literacy and 2) that drama enables opportunities for “social dreaming” in which social literacy skills may be practiced. We weave those two ideas through the lens of our visit to New Zealand and Australia.
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Mantle of the Expert: a Further Paradigm for Education?
Volume 1
In this paper I will address three matters, in my view all of them are urgent for educators, parents and legislators.
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Kiwi Kids Can Fly: Making Connections with Devised Drama, the Key Competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum and Classroom Practice
Volume 1
This article examines the connections between the fundamental principles of devising theatre, the key competencies in the New Zealand curriculum and classroom practice. It draws on the research undertaken at Westburn Primary School, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006 and 2007 and the literature on devised theatre.
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Performing Palauan Identity: Popular Music in the Western Carolines
Volume 1
In the late 1980s, inhabitants began to utilize local popular music during customary first childbirth ceremonies on the islands of Palau, the Westernmost Micronesian island group. After several days of massages and medicinal baths, the ngasech (lit. ‘rising’), as this hot bath ritual is called in Palauan, culminates in the new mother’s first appearance in public.
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Using ICT in the Music Room: Possible Implications for Secondary Music Teacher Training
Volume 1This paper outlines some initial thoughts and findings in the literature at the beginning of a doctoral study into the use of technology in music classrooms. In this study I intend to examine the use of technology in four different schools in New Zealand with a particular focus on student and teacher perceptions of the use of technology and any possible implications these may have for music teacher education.
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Review: STAND ALONE — Twenty audition monologues for young actors
Volume 1
A CD from the Australian Script Centre. AU$16.50 + postage. ISBN 09577544 8 5. Order online from http://www.ozscript.org/standalone.php or email admin@ozscript.org
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E-Journal Publications Details
Volume 1Edition: 1; General Editor: Ms Susan Battye; In association with: Te Wananga o Aotearoa; Published by: Drama New Zealand; Publication date: Tuesday, 18 July 2006; ISSN: 1177-8199; © 2006 All Right Reserved; Te Wananga o Aotearoa & Drama New Zealand
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Foreword
Volume 1Over the past several years there have been a great many exciting developments in Aotearoa / New Zealand performing arts. One example is the recent prominence of New Zealand and success of New Zealanders in the realm of mainstream Hollywood blockbuster films, as evidenced by The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Last Samurai, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and others.
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About
Volume 1
An open-access, peer-reviewed academic e-journal published by Drama New Zealand in association with the School of Performing Arts, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Launch Date: 18 July 2006. Launch venue: Te Wananga O Aotearoa Manukau Campus.
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Introduction
Volume 1Te Wānanga o Aotearoa aims to increase its capacity to make a significant contribution through research to New Zealand’s cultural and social development and in doing so, be innovative, accessible and beneficial to all communities. Te Kāhui Rangahau, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s Research Committee is committed to supporting and developing research capability of staff and is charged with monitoring and approving research projects and allocating funding where appropriate.
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Editorial
Volume 1This inaugural e-journal, Research in New Zealand Performing Arts: Nga Mahi a Rehia No Aotearoa, is the first of its kind in Aotearoa / New Zealand, and as such represents a unique collaboration between an arts subject association, Drama New Zealand, and the School of Performing Arts, Te Wananga O Aotearoa (TWOA).
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Stories whispered by the land: An account of two workshop events, in Parua Bay and Te Kaha
Volume 1
[Peer Reviewed] Stories are powerful agencies. They carry explicit and latent messages about the meanings of things around us, our identity and our connections. This article looks at ways in which particular stories may spring from the land itself.
