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Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction. Carol Grbich Chapter 11 Ethnodrama . Ethno drama and performance texts. Key points Ethnodrama is a powerful tool for highlighting cultural issues and the perspectives of disempowered people The skills of a playwright are essential
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Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction Carol Grbich Chapter 11 Ethnodrama
Ethno drama and performance texts Key points • Ethnodrama is a powerful tool for highlighting cultural issues and the perspectives of disempowered people • The skills of a playwright are essential • The dialogical aspect of performance bringing together diverse perspectives can be an important vehicle for change
Ethno drama • A hermeneutic and critically reflective process • The primary objective is to educate or bring about change in your audience by using ethnographically derived data to present political and social issues in dramatic form.
Ethnodrama Process 1. • Source data from: interviews, observations and documentation to produce a polyphonic narrative collage. • Develop characters • Develop script – dialogue and activity • Monologue • Dialogue • Monologue+ dialogue
Ethnodrama Process 2. • Develop the story line - Take out the essence of field notes, interview transcripts and journal entries, photos, TV scripts etc • Keep the numbers of actors to the minimum required to tell the story • Decide from whose perspective the story is to be told • What role should the researcher play? Use theatrical artifacts to send messages to the audience rather than overusing language–
Dialogical validation Ongoing dialogue with participants Pre performance : Dialogical interaction with • Actors • Relevant community groups Post performance: Dialogical interaction with • the Audience • Actors • Community groups
Criticisms Quality • Researchers are not playwrights Ethics • Uncertainties of participants • Participant vulnerability The dialogic encounter • Whose perspective dominates • Well researchers negotiate?
Evaluation • What level of participation do key participants have in the creation of their stage characters and the dialogical negotiation which follows a performance? • What levels of interactivity occur with the audience and with relevant public groups through dialogical exchange • Do performances succeed in bringing people of different perspectives together so exchange and collaboration can occur? • What are the outcomes of these interactions in terms of change? (adapted from Jones, 2007)
New forms of Ethnodrama • World wide web as a stage • Autoethnodrama • Articles written as dramatic scripts