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CHAPTER FIVE: DATA ANALYSIS to be makers of the narrative as well. I wanted to see if participants felt they had a say in the formation of the story so I included a question about this in the questionnaire in the first cycle. In the case of The Tribe most participants felt that they influenced the direction of the story’s development. The average mark is 4.9 on a seven point Likert item where 7 means that they felt they could influence the story greatly. The marks span out fairly evenly, tipping towards influencing the story fairly strongly. Table 2. Influencing the narrative: The Tribe 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Questionnaire | Did not Influence (Q_D) influence greatly No. of marks | 2 1 0 3 1 2 3 The difference could depend on whether the participants’ ideas were built into the narrative, or even if they wanted to influence the story or not. The average point was closer to 7 than 1 with the other two series as well (4,1 for The Children and 4 for Out of Space). What is interesting is that all participants of The Tribe marked ‘yes’ to the question asking them if they would be happy to participate in a similar drama lesson at some other time. This means that influencing the narrative and enjoying the lesson do not necessarily correlate. Interestingly, the comparison of the lesson plans and the reflective diary shows that there was the least deviation from the plan in the case of The Tribe which means that I changed parts of the lesson on the spot much more in the case of the other two series, where participants felt they influenced the story less, even though more changes were made there to incorporate their ideas and positions. Another aspect of this issue is related to the logic of the narrative. The constraints built into the story create expectations or desires in the participants. The constraint of not having access to one side of the island worked in this way. I really enjoyed the lessons, because I started thinking what it would be like to be on the island. And thought I would go to the other side and really research the tribe and maybe find out that they are not undeveloped at all. But there wasn’t a chance to play that. But then when this young Kalaf called us to the rock I was feeling that you are reading my mind.” 677 F D3. + 184 +
