Asking the right questions: accessing children's experience of aesthetic engagement

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Bundy, Penny
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John O'Toole

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2005
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This paper reports the findings of a research project conducted with four classes of children (Years 7, 5, 3 and 1) in a Queensland primary school. Although the ultimate aim of the project (as it continues) is to attempt to understand the aesthetic engagement of children in response to drama/theatre experience, here the focus was on exploring ways in which interview techniques might be used to encourage children to articulate the nature of their experiences. In particular, the paper focuses on how children express their experience of connection and heightened awareness, and how interview and analysis techniques might allow the researcher to know if these have been experienced. The stimulus material used to elicit their responses was the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . This paper describes the project and reports findings focused on the following questions: 堄o children experience connection to an idea of a dramatic work at a metaphoric level? If so, in what way do they communicate this and how as researchers can we know it? 堄o children experience heightened awareness of the idea of the drama? If so, in what way do they communicate this and how as researchers can we know it? Extrait Cet article pr鳥nte les r鳵ltats d'un projet de recherche conduit avec quatre classes d'enfants (en quatri譥, sixi譥, CM1 et CE1) dans une 飯le primaire du Queensland. Bien que le but ultime du projet (toujours en cours) soit d'essayer de comprendre l'engagement esth鴩que d'enfants en r鰯nse ࠬ'exp鲩ence de l'art dramatique/th颴re, l'objectif 鴡it ici d'explorer la mani貥 dont les techniques d'entretien pourraient 괲e utilis饳 pour encourager les enfants ࠡrticuler la nature de leurs exp鲩ences. En particulier, l'article se concentre sur la fa篮 dont les enfants expriment leur exp鲩ence de connexion et de conscience accrue , et comment les techniques d'entretien et d'analyse peuvent permettre au chercheur de savoir si celles-ci ont 鴩 ressenties. Le mat鲩el stimulant utilis頰our susciter leurs r鰯nses 鴡it le film Harry Potter et la pierre philosophale . Cet article d飲it le projet et pr鳥nte les r鳵ltats centr鳠sur les questions suivantes : 堌es enfants font-ils l'exp鲩ence d'une connexion ࠵ne id饠d'un travail dramatique ࠵n niveau m鴡phorique ? Si c'est le cas, comment communiquent-ils ceci et comment pouvons-nous le savoir en tant que chercheurs ? 堌es enfants font-ils l'exp鲩ence d'une conscience accrue d'une id饠de l'art dramatique? Si c'est le cas, comment communiquent-ils ceci et comment pouvons-nous le savoir en tant que chercheurs?

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Applied Theatre researcher/IDEA Journal

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6

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© 2005 Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA Journal. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.

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Specialist Studies in Education

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