Learning Through Drama

Youth Drama Spurs Innovative Ireland

Finbarr Bradley, co-author of Capitalising on Culture, Competing on Difference, (Blackhall, 2008) offers his reflections on the debate on the need to restore the Irish economy. He looks at what the impact might be on young people if a concerted effort was made to foster a strong sense of cultural identity. He asks questions such as how can involvement in youth drama generate a sense of ownership that empowers rather than tries to 'manage' or 'control' a generation? Is culture, not science or technology, key to Ireland's attempt to become a creative 'smart' economy?

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Youth Drama: The 'Youth Work Act'?

In this article from Issue 12 of Youth Drama Ireland, Maurice Devlin, Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences, NUI Maynooth, reflects on the benefits of participation in youth theatre/drama for the development of the social being and how drama as an artform is dense with possibilities for exploring and expressing themes and issues that go right to the heart of  "human being".

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The Arts and Irish Education: Some Lessons from the USA

Marian McCarthy (2004)

Marian McCarthy (Department of Education, University College Cork) places the research findings of Shirley Brice Heath in an Irish context.

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The Arts and Irish Education: Learning More Than You Know in Youth Drama

Shirley Brice Heath (2004)

Shirley Brice Heath on how youth theatre stretches thinking, language and ways of being.

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