What is Provocations?
What is Provocations?
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PROVOCATIONS: drama and dance in education is a publication with a mandate to celebrate, problematize, and inquire into drama and dance in diverse educational settings. This venture aims to connect Ontario drama and dance educators by providing a vibrant platform for sharing professional knowledge, pedagogical practices, and research. The centering of teacher, student and arts educators voice and experience will be a hallmark of the publication.
Provocations' audience consists of educators, K- post-secondary, who want to learn more about effective teaching techniques, share their own classroom discoveries and research, and have a platform for interacting with others. The journal will also be of interest to artist- educators and arts organizations.
Mission and Vision Statement
Mission and Vision Statement
MISSION
To cultivate community, provoke pedagogical inquiry, and disrupt educational complacency through drama and dance.
VISION
Through the sharing of diverse teaching & learning stories, PROVOCATIONS aims to build a connected community of drama and dance educators. This publication centers the voices of drama and dance practitioners (teachers, students artists) whose inquiries and practice-based research place them in conversation with a broader community. Innovative approaches, bold risk-taking, and reflective practice are highlighted to encourage exploration and experimentation in the drama and dance classroom.
WHAT GUIDES US
Drama and dance stories matter
Drama and dance make space for reflection on multiple processes: wondering, theorizing, challenging, exploring, provoking, creating, thinking and feeling
Drama and dance educators take action to decolonize learning
Drama and Dance practice-based research and scholarship build community, while stimulating innovation and new conversations
Drama and dance will continue to grow through exemplary practice
Provocations Editorial Board
Provocations Editorial Board
Matthew Sheahan (he/him)
Matthew Sheahan is the President of the Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators (CODE), and the Vice President of the General Meeting Committee of the International Drama/Theatre Educators Association (IDEA). He has presented numerous workshops across Ontario and internationally, focussing predominantly on infusing and elevating marginalized and Indigenous voices in a good way, free from appropriation. In 2021, Matthew served as the project manager for the Grounded in Space and Place resource writing project, and facilitated the re-write for all Drama and Dance AQ and ABQ requirements through the Ontario College of Teachers. He is a veteran Drama teacher and an instructor with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Intermediate and Senior Drama. Currently, Matthew is an Indigenous Education Instructional Coach with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board K-12.
Jessie Kennedy (she/her)
Jessie Kennedy teaches drama and English with Trillium Lakelands District School Board. She is a student in the Graduate Faculty of Education at York University and her research aims to understand the impact of Land-inspired drama pedagogy on students’ feelings of connectedness and belonging to their classroom, school, and local communities, and how learning with local partners and devising drama for an audience affects student learning and builds relationships. Jessie is a former Vice President of the Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators.
Sharon Davidson
Sharon is a former drama student and constant person of colour who has worked in Canadian organizations which represent performers’ professional interests.
Claire Holland
Claire Holland is a teacher with the Toronto District School Board. She has extensive experience teaching Drama and Dance as a classroom teacher and Arts Prep provider. She has developed teacher resources around finding entry points into Drama and Dance, strategies for cross-curricular integration of the Arts, and strategies for using Drama to promote Critical Literacy and Financial Literacy.. Claire has been an instructor of the Drama AQ at OISE/UT and a course director for the Drama teachable in the Faculty of Education at York University. Most recently, she conducted a 3 part learning series for Drama teachers at the TDSB who are new to the subject area and need support in understanding the core conventions, planning and assessment.
Kerri-Lee Funk
Kerri-Lee is an arts administrator and a K–12 educator in the WRDSB. She earned her Bachelor of Education from Queen's University (Artist in Community Education, 2018) and began her career as the Education and Outreach Associate with the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver. She later returned to Ontario to teach elementary French, Music, Drama, and Dance with the Waterloo Region District School Board, and currently teaches French, Family Studies, and Social Sciences courses in the secondary panel. She has also served on the Teacher Advisory Committee and worked as an Education Associate at the Stratford Festival. In 2023, Kerri-Lee completed a Master of Professional Education at Western University, focusing on teaching students with exceptionalities. She remains active in community theatre with Kitchener-Waterloo Musical Productions and The Community Players of New Hamburg. She is proud to serve on the Editorial Board of Provocations and the Board of Directors for the Arts Education Network of Ontario.
Thank you also to our Advisory Board Members and Readers:
Ayesatta Conteh
Moksha Serrano
Robert Durocher
Ruwena de Fonseka
Ariel Clarke
Shemina Keshvani
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