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FIRST CYCLE
The logic behind this proposition is that a story is realised through a series
of specific situations in a play and in a Bond drama the Centre of the play
provides the thematic logic among these situations.
This framework offers a series of questions that can be used very practically
when working on a play or when planning a drama lesson as it provides
a series of questions. In my analysis I will be going through the layers of
Site examining incidents in the drama lessons that reflect different elements,
I will also make connections with appropriate LTD components to highlight
the meeting or the clash of the two fields, as the focus for this cycle of research
was the exploration of the use of Bondian concepts in classroom drama.
In the following sections I will be referring to the interviews conducted
with participants of the lessons. All lessons and interviews were conducted in
Hungarian, all translations were done by the researcher.
Signs in transcripts: T — refers to Teacher; P — refers to Participant in
the focus group. The number does not mark specific participants in different
quotes, I only use them to differentiate speakers in each conversation.
In data references: (X_Y1); X refers to the type of data (V — Video; F- Focus
group, RD reflective diary); Y1 refers to the specific school and lesson number
in the series. The full details of data referred to are listed in Appendix A.
Site A - Contemporary Problems in the Drama
I will examine two moments from different drama lessons in this cycle.
The series titled Out of Space specifically focused on how contemporary
issues can be present in the drama lesson. The starting point for the planning
was the refugee crisis that had been used by the Hungarian government
to “detract attention from growing unrest with government policies and
corruption”’®® by creating large scale media campaigns demonising migrants
and dominating social discourse.
When the participants found out in the early phases of the first lesson
that we would be playing adults in year 2316 who are trying to escape from
Earth they not only shared their ideas but evidently connected it with current
affairs as this part of the verbatim transcript of the lesson shows:
P1: It shouldn’t be too easy for them to get onto B17, because then the story will
end too quickly.
T: I promise that it won’t be easy. We might think about the difficulties together.
Last thought before we start doing a task.
588 Hadas Aron — Emily Holland: Europe’s Migration Crisis: Manipulating Nationalist
Narratives For Domestic Gain, https://www.commentingtogether.com/home/europes¬
migration-crisis-manipulating-nationalist-narratives-for-domestic-gain, 2015.
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