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As a critical educator in the area of drama/theatre education my research interests include: curriculum studies, critical pedagogy, drama/theatre education, transformative education, youth & society, at-risk youth, incarcerated youth, street-involved youth, youth justice, restorative justice, applied theatre, participatory research, arts-based research, embodied knowing, ethnodrama, performance ethnography.
I use participatory arts-based methods in all aspects of my research. Arts-based research is an emerging and innovative qualitative method which brings together arts-based practice and scholarly inquiry. I teach a graduate level course in arts-based research.
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High Risk Youth Uncensored: An Educational Exchange (2009 - 2013)
An Interdisciplinary Arts-based Research Centre (2005 - Present)
The Transformative Potential of Drama in the Education of Incarerated Youth (2004 - 2010)
Arresting Change: Popular Theatre with Young Offenders (2003 - 2004)
"Life in the Stick": Youth Experiences, Risk & Popular Theatre Process (1999 - 2004)
Exploring Media Advertising Through Drama with Inner-City Students (1999 - 2001)