Kitchener-Bentley, Nick;
(2025)
‘Making Our Own Story’ – Promoting Student Agency Through a Narrator Role.
Changing English
10.1080/1358684x.2025.2578761.
(In press).
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Abstract
This piece of writing considers the ways in which the teacher adopting the process drama approach of a narrator role can promote student agency when co-constructing fictional work. Drawing upon transcripts and stills from moments of classroom learning in drama, and student discussions from semi-structured group interviews, I examine what happened when I used a narrator role as part of lessons on Darkwood Manor, a sequence of gothic drama, with three different Year 7 drama classes. Considering the conception of knowledge and direct instruction in the Department for Education’s Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework, I discuss what I learnt about a different view of learning through lessons and conversations with my students; one in which the teacher works with the students to make meaning.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Making Our Own Story’ – Promoting Student Agency Through a Narrator Role |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1358684x.2025.2578761 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2025.2578761 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Narrator role, shadowy role, teacher-in-role, student agency, process drama |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217558 |
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