Volume 13

• Alex Ates, Kent Denver School, USA

• Selina Busby, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK

• Manjima Chatterjee, Shiv Nadar School, India

• Durell Cooper, Cultural Innovation Group, USA

• Rivka Eckert, State University of New York, College at Potsdam, USA

• Rosalind M. Flynn, The Catholic University of America, USA

• Kelly Freebody, The University of Sydney, Australia

• Anna Glarin, York St John University, UK

• Courtney Grile, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA

• Norifumi Hida, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Japan

• Kaitlin Orlena-Kearns Jaskolski, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• Byoung-joo Kim, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea

• Gillian McNally, University of Northern Colorado, USA

• David Montgomery, New York University, USA

• Amy Petersen Jensen, Brigham Young University, USA

• Amanda Pinkham-Brown, The School District of Philadelphia, USA

• Amanda Rutter, The University of Texas Permian Basin, USA

• Sara Schroeter, University of Regina, Canada

• Nkululeko Sibanda, Rhodes University, South Africa

• Daphnie Sicre, University of California at Riverside, USA

• Tammie Swopes, New York University, USA

• Amanda Wager, Vancouver Island University, Canada

• James Webb, Davidson College, USA

• Gustave Weltsek, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

• Petronilla Whitfield, Arts University Bournemouth, UK

ISSN: 1552-5236

In 1983, Dorothy Heathcote stated that, as educators, we should be asking what sort of schools we want – but also, what sort of society we want. Her words are incredibly timely today: they challenge us to consider questions of purpose, curriculum, access, and stewardship.

Volume 13, Issue 1 engages members of the global Educational Theatre community in dialogue around these ideas which were investigated at the recent 2025 Dorothy Heathcote Now Conference hosted at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

Guest Editor: David Allen, Mantle of the Expert Network

The submission deadline for Volume 13, Issue 1 was March 1, 2026.

Call for Papers:

For this special issue, we welcomed two types of submissions:

1. Academic articles: 6000-8000 words. Will be given two peer reviews.

2. Practice-based pieces, which are not expected to be so academic, and might be written by teachers or practitioners, for example: 4,000 words. Only one peer review per article.

All manuscripts were to be accompanied by a 200 word abstract and 100 word biographies for the author(s), and conform to APA style manual. Additional style and formatting guidelines are available here.

Potential topics included:

• Empowering learners: How can practitioners bring curriculum learning alive in ways that give children genuine voice and agency?

• Drama and integration across the curriculum: How can practitioners draw links to history, humanities, and personal, social, health, and economic education (PSHE)? In what ways does this approach humanize teaching?

• Building community through drama, in the classroom and in the school.

• Reimaging Heathcote: In what ways can we draw on Dorothy Heathcote’s legacy?

• Evaluation and assessment

• Teaching political awareness through drama

• Teaching challenging and sensitive subjects

• Reinventing the curriculum, and challenging the neo-liberal educational agenda

• Teacher as artist and teacher as technician

• Using digital technology and AI in teaching

We encouraged article submissions from artists, educators, and scholars from different disciplines. Our goal was to motivate a dialogue among a wide variety of practitioners and researchers that would enrich the development of educational theatre in the years to come.

Reviewing Procedures:

Each article was sent to peer reviewers. They provided advice on the following:

• Whether the article should be published with no revisions/with revisions.

• The contribution the article makes to the arts community.

• Specific recommendations to the author about improving the article.

• Other publishing outlets if the article is considered unacceptable.

Papers were addressed to:

Dr. Jonathan Jones

Please include ‘ArtsPraxis Submission’ in the subject line.

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