Exploring young people’s aspirations through community drama

ABSTRACT

This paper explores young people’s aspirations and the influence of community drama in shaping these arts-focussed aspirations. Research was undertaken using creative drama methods with young people who attend a youth drama group. The young people identified career and personal aspirations, recognising the hard work and support that it can take to achieve their goals. Youth drama was discussed as supporting the development of these young people’s aspirations to enter careers in the arts industry, but also in other areas, as well as helping to develop transferable skills that could support the young people in their future and current aspirations.

KEYWORDS:

• Drama
• young people
• aspirations
• youth
• creative methods

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the staff and young people at Silhouette for their support and insights for this project.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availably statement

The data that support the findings of this study are not publicly available due to them containing information that could compromise the privacy of the research participants.