Joe Norris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Norris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Norris |
| SIGNATURE | NORRIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7889-0312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Taking It to the Streets: Participatory Action Research Through Participatory Theatrical Dissemination
Mirror Theatre (MT) is a not-for-profit theatre company that has been devising participatory theatre around social issues since the early 1990s. In this chapter, we propose that because of participants’ active involvement in discussion and dramatic portrayals, MT offers an example of Playbuilding as Participatory Action Research. This article provides (a) a theoretical discussion linking playbuilding to PAR, (b) examples of current MT projects, a…
Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives
This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethn…
Shifting Perspectives and Practices: Mirror Theatre’s Stop/Start/Continue Evolution
Mirror Theatre has a long history of applied theatre practice, primarily in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario. This article documents some of its over seventy performances/workshops addressing health, social, and educational issues. Employing a stop, start, continue lens, it outlines some of the changes the company has gone through based on theoretical and pragmatic considerations. Issues of the ethics and safety of audience participation, est…
Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance
A Walk in the Park: A Virtual Workshop Exploring Intertextuality and Implicit Powers Within Texts
Focusing on a variety of possible presentational styles of a personal poem, this article explores the problematics of the interplay of the medium and the message. It brings in the theoretical concepts of intertextuality (how previous knowledge impacts one's reading), media(tion) (how the choice of dissemination through printed texts, spoken texts, images, or combination of these changes the content's meaning), presence (how readers and/or audienc…
Improvisational Drama as Inquiry: The Role of the Simulated-Actual in Meaning Making
Based upon more than 25 years as a director of ensembles of performative research, I provide example of improvisational approaches that I have taken to explore a range of social interactions including the teacher/student relationship, subtle differences among need/want/desire, practicum politics, trust, reading power in gender, judging strangers, locus of control, homelessness, and aging parents. Techniques have included image theater, hot-seatin…
Heating Up Online Learning: Insights from a Collaboration Employing Arts Based Research/Pedagogy for an Adult Education, Online, Community Outreach Undergraduate Course
This article examines a three-stage collaboration in the design and implementation of a community outreach online course for an adult education program at a Canadian university. The collaboration used a participatory arts-based pedagogy approach that is designed to evoke thought rather than prescribe meanings. This manuscript has been structured to parallel a script format with Act I reporting how a group of university drama students employed the…
Hidden and Null Curricula of Sexual Orientation: A Duoethnography of the Absent Presence and the Present Absence
An earlier version of this article appeared as a chapter in Democratic Responses in an Era of Standardization as “Null and Hidden Curricula of Sexual Orientation: A Dialogue on the Curreres of the Absent Presence and the Present Absence” (Norris & Sawyer, 2004). While not labeled as such in the original, this piece marked the beginning of the dialogic research methodology called duoethnography. In just more than 10 years, in addition to articles …
Duoethnography: A Retrospective 10 Years After
Duoethnography
Duoethnography is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers engage in a dialogue on their disparate histories in a given phenomenon. Their goal is to interrogate and re-conceptualize existing beliefs through a conversation that is written in a play-script format. The methodology of duoethnography serves as the focus of this book. Duoethnography facilitates stratified, nested, auto-ethnographic accounts of a given resea…
Cacophony and Fugue: Pre‐service narratives create conversation about drama education
Teacher preparation seeks to develop reflective practitioners who examine and re‐examine teaching and learning, knowledge, beliefs and values. Articulation of teacher voice‐‐use of language to explain, describe, question, explore or challenge‐‐is vital. Teacher voice implies that a teacher can speak her or his own truth and be heard. Inherent barriers in teacher education, especially in drama education, impede reflection and teacher voice. These …
Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance
Improvisational Drama as Inquiry: The Role of the Simulated-Actual in Meaning Making
Based upon more than 25 years as a director of ensembles of performative research, I provide example of improvisational approaches that I have taken to explore a range of social interactions including the teacher/student relationship, subtle differences among need/want/desire, practicum politics, trust, reading power in gender, judging strangers, locus of control, homelessness, and aging parents. Techniques have included image theater, hot-seatin…
A Walk in the Park: A Virtual Workshop Exploring Intertextuality and Implicit Powers Within Texts
Focusing on a variety of possible presentational styles of a personal poem, this article explores the problematics of the interplay of the medium and the message. It brings in the theoretical concepts of intertextuality (how previous knowledge impacts one's reading), media(tion) (how the choice of dissemination through printed texts, spoken texts, images, or combination of these changes the content's meaning), presence (how readers and/or audienc…
Cacophony and Fugue: Pre‐service narratives create conversation about drama education
Teacher preparation seeks to develop reflective practitioners who examine and re‐examine teaching and learning, knowledge, beliefs and values. Articulation of teacher voice‐‐use of language to explain, describe, question, explore or challenge‐‐is vital. Teacher voice implies that a teacher can speak her or his own truth and be heard. Inherent barriers in teacher education, especially in drama education, impede reflection and teacher voice. These …
Duoethnography
Duoethnography is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers engage in a dialogue on their disparate histories in a given phenomenon. Their goal is to interrogate and re-conceptualize existing beliefs through a conversation that is written in a play-script format. The methodology of duoethnography serves as the focus of this book. Duoethnography facilitates stratified, nested, auto-ethnographic accounts of a given resea…
Hidden and Null Curricula of Sexual Orientation: A Duoethnography of the Absent Presence and the Present Absence
An earlier version of this article appeared as a chapter in Democratic Responses in an Era of Standardization as “Null and Hidden Curricula of Sexual Orientation: A Dialogue on the Curreres of the Absent Presence and the Present Absence” (Norris & Sawyer, 2004). While not labeled as such in the original, this piece marked the beginning of the dialogic research methodology called duoethnography. In just more than 10 years, in addition to articles …
Duoethnography: A Retrospective 10 Years After
Heating Up Online Learning: Insights from a Collaboration Employing Arts Based Research/Pedagogy for an Adult Education, Online, Community Outreach Undergraduate Course
This article examines a three-stage collaboration in the design and implementation of a community outreach online course for an adult education program at a Canadian university. The collaboration used a participatory arts-based pedagogy approach that is designed to evoke thought rather than prescribe meanings. This manuscript has been structured to parallel a script format with Act I reporting how a group of university drama students employed the…
Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives
This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethn…
Shifting Perspectives and Practices: Mirror Theatre’s Stop/Start/Continue Evolution
Mirror Theatre has a long history of applied theatre practice, primarily in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario. This article documents some of its over seventy performances/workshops addressing health, social, and educational issues. Employing a stop, start, continue lens, it outlines some of the changes the company has gone through based on theoretical and pragmatic considerations. Issues of the ethics and safety of audience participation, est…
Embodying Moral Discourses Through Arts-Based Methodologies: Poetry, Visual Arts, Movement, Sounds, and Performance
A Walk in the Park: A Virtual Workshop Exploring Intertextuality and Implicit Powers Within Texts
Focusing on a variety of possible presentational styles of a personal poem, this article explores the problematics of the interplay of the medium and the message. It brings in the theoretical concepts of intertextuality (how previous knowledge impacts one's reading), media(tion) (how the choice of dissemination through printed texts, spoken texts, images, or combination of these changes the content's meaning), presence (how readers and/or audienc…
Improvisational Drama as Inquiry: The Role of the Simulated-Actual in Meaning Making
Based upon more than 25 years as a director of ensembles of performative research, I provide example of improvisational approaches that I have taken to explore a range of social interactions including the teacher/student relationship, subtle differences among need/want/desire, practicum politics, trust, reading power in gender, judging strangers, locus of control, homelessness, and aging parents. Techniques have included image theater, hot-seatin…
Taking It to the Streets: Participatory Action Research Through Participatory Theatrical Dissemination
Mirror Theatre (MT) is a not-for-profit theatre company that has been devising participatory theatre around social issues since the early 1990s. In this chapter, we propose that because of participants’ active involvement in discussion and dramatic portrayals, MT offers an example of Playbuilding as Participatory Action Research. This article provides (a) a theoretical discussion linking playbuilding to PAR, (b) examples of current MT projects, a…
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works)