Learning study - a model for practice-based research in a Swedish theatre classroom

ABSTRACT

This article presents an ongoing research project, which researches theatre as a school subject at high school level in Sweden. The study is an example of practice-based research on teaching and learning and uses the model learning study for its research approach. It is argued that knowledge concerning the meaning of knowing the object of learning, in this case “to impose one´s will”, is generated using the model. The results are presented as three categories of description and in an outcome space. The categories describe different ways of knowing the object of learning, in this case how to impose one´s will (what the character wants) with the purpose of developing the capability to consciously communicate with an audience.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the teachers and students involved in the project.

The authors wishes to thank ‘Anchor English’ for proofreading service.

Disclosure statement

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

Notes

¹ Filmed material from pretest 09-17-19.

² C.f. Frost and Yarrow (2007), also under “The outcome space” in this article.

³ The research lessons will be described in other articles, due to space reasons.

⁴ Again: See Frost and Yarrow´s (2007) definition under “The outcome space”.