Newsletter July 2026
DiE Days news:
Proceedings DiE Days 2024 published:
…with chapters on: Co-construction and improvisation, simulating a language town in an English classroom, educational robotics and digital storytelling, creating a short film in an Italian class, playful learning in teacher education, performing poetry, dramatising a picture book by Petr Sís.
Available open access at: https://doi.org/10.25656/01:35527
Drama in Language Teaching Podcast: New episode
Save the date:
The next on-site DiE Days are planned to take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2-4 September, 2027. More information to follow.
Other news
Conferences / CfPs
There’s still time to register for ‘Where Imagination Becomes Experience’ Conference, 25-26 July 2026, Trinity College Dublin, celebrating the great legacy of Prof. Cecily O’Neill in the field of Drama in Education and marking her 90th birthday!
https://www.tcd.ie/education/news-and-events/2026/where-imagination-becomes-experience-conference/
The Centre for Drama Education at Apor Vilmos Catholic College, Vác, Hungary, is organising an Online conference titled: Storytelling and Drama in the Age of AI – How to Create Human-Centred Spaces in a World of Algorithms and Artificial Narratives. 22nd January, 2027. CfP submission deadline: 30th September, 2026.
More information: https://avkf.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/storytelling-and-drama-in-the-age-of-ai-cfp-0615.pdf
Articles
. A statement by the sun: a Practice-as-Research enquiry into presence and absence. Journal of Creative Research Methods, Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2026. p. 20-40
This article describes a Practice-as-Research (PaR) project, involving a group of young people in drama and visual arts practices, to explore their understandings of absence and presence in the community.
Christina Zourna. Drama in Education in Career Guidance and Counselling: enhancing teenagers’ agency and empowerment. National Drama. October 2025. https://doi.org/10.64741/901607iqmotg
This article summarizes the findings of a recently published PhD study, where forty students from grades 9, 10, and 11 at a Greek high school participated in a quasi-experiment during an Action Research intervention that used Drama in Education as the primary method for career exploration. The intervention successfully enhanced the teenagers’ agency and empowerment through personal involvement and active engagement in all processes.
Recent(-ish) PhD Theses
Rachel Hall. 2026. Doctoral thesis. From the page to the stage; the potential of picturebook dramatisation in the development of oral skills of young learners of English. Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Christina Zourna. 2025. The impact of drama in education on career decision-making self-efficacy and career decision-making skills development of secondary education students: a mixed methods research study. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Macedonia. http://dspace.lib.uom.gr/ handle/2159/32851