Multiple and Multi-dimensional Primary-Secondary School Transitions: Using Drama to Facilitate Transitions

Divya Jindal-Snape, William D. Barlow, Tony Goode, Elizabeth F. S. Hannah, Tricia Tooman, Clio Ding (Artist), Monica Burns (Artist), Tasha Santiago (Artist)

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Abstract

Implemented in one Scottish local authority, this longitudinal study’s purpose was to understand how drama might support young people and their significant others’ multiple and multi-dimensional primary-secondary school transitions (Jindal-Snape, 2016, MMT theory). Based on the theory and practice of Neelands and Goode (2015), four drama workshops were facilitated in P7 (final year of primary school in Scotland) and one in S1 (first year of secondary school in Scotland). The workshops enabled the pupils and the workshop leaders to work together to establish a dramatised, fictional world where everyone could safely explore their excitement and concerns around the theme of transitions. This comic anthology is based on this work and data collected over three time points.

The comics include verbatim quotes and interpretation of the data.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationDundee
PublisherUniVerse
Size14 Pages
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2023

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements
We are grateful to all those in the local authority who helped in the planning and implementation of the project.

In particular, we would like to thank all the pupils who took part in the drama workshops and those who participated in the study (young people, parents/carers
and professionals) for giving us valuable insights into their transition experiences.

Thanks to the local authority for their financial support, the University of Aberdeen for pump prime seed funding, and the University of Dundee for its Innovation and Impact Development Fund.

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