Publications & Resources
This is a list of key texts on applied theatre, pedagogy, youth studies, urban school research, school-based ethnographic research, anti-discriminatory education policy and practice, gender and identity construction. We update this list quarterly.
Published Books
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Hope in a Collapsing World wins the American Alliance of Theatre and Education Distinguished Book Award!
Interview with
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A space of ‘survivable failure’:
Read an interview with Dr. Kathleen Gallagher on her new book
Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope: Enacting Community-Engaged Research through Performative Methodologies
Why theatre matters: urban youth, engagement, and a pedagogy of the real
The methodological dilemma: Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research
The methodological dilemma revisited: Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research for a new era
The theatre of urban: Youth and schooling in dangerous times
How theatre educates: Convergences and counterpoints with artists, scholars and advocates
In defence of theatre: aesthetic practices and social interventions
Drama and theatre in urban contexts
Drama education in the lives of girls: Imagining possibilities
"Young people learn best in and from the worlds they inhabit. The best drama curriculum gets its life force from those worlds."
-Dr. Gallagher
Book Chapters
On the Importance of Big Umbrellas: Applied Theatre as Hopeful Practice in Precarious Times
Gallagher, K. (2022). On the Importance of Big Umbrellas: Applied Theatre as Hopeful Practice in Precarious Times, (pp.36-40). In Busby, S., Freebody, K., & Rajendran, C. (Eds.). The Routledge companion to theatre and young people. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003149965
Making and appreciating theatre: Lessons in ethical relationality and prototype expansion
Gallagher, K. & Mealy, S. (2021). Making and appreciating theatre: Lessons in ethical relationality and prototype expansion. In J. Roberts-Smith, S. Ruecker, & M. Radzikowska (Eds.), Proposals for better futures: Prototyping across the disciplines.
Art, collaboration, and youth research in a collapsing world: Conceiving and enacting a multi-vocal research project in the borderland of the real and the imagined.
Art, collaboration, and youth research in a collapsing world: Conceiving and enacting a multi-vocal research project in the borderland of the real and the imagined. In K. Gallagher, D.J. Rodricks, & K. Jacobson (Eds.). Global youth citizenry and radical hope: Enacting community-engaged research through performative methodologies (pp. 23-45). Singapore: Springer Series on Children and Young People.
Performing a living museum of memories: beholding young people’s experiences and expressions of care through documentary theatre-making and oral history performance
Gallagher, K. & King, R. (2020). Performing a living museum of memories: beholding young people’s experiences and expressions of care through documentary theatre-making and oral history performance. In A. S. Fisher, & J. Thompson (Eds.) Performing Care.
A situated, ethical, imaginative doing and being in the encounter of research.
Gallagher, K., J. Rodricks and K. Jacobson (2020). A situated, ethical, imaginative doing and being in the encounter of research. In K. Gallagher, D.J. Rodricks, & K. Jacobson (Eds.). Global youth citizenry and radical hope: Enacting community-engaged research through performative methodologies (pp. 1-20). Singapore: Springer Series on Children and Young People.
Staying the course and ‘here to question’: Envisioning education at Tarragon Theatre as an integral goal and a reciprocal practice
Gallagher, K. & Wessels, A. (2019). Staying the course and ‘here to question’: Envisioning education at Tarragon Theatre as an integral goal and a reciprocal practice. In M. Anderson, & M. Finneran (Eds.), Education and theatres: Innovation, outreach and success. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Love, time, reflexivity and the methodological imaginary.
Gallagher, K. (2018). Love, time reflexivity and the methodological imaginary. In. K. Gallagher (ed). The Methodological Dilemma: creative, critical, and collaborative approaches to qualitative research. New York, London: Routledge.
Learning on the ground: How our research stories teach us about ethics
Gallagher, K. & Sallis, R. (2018). Learning on the ground: How our research stories teach us about ethics. In P. Duffy, R. Sallis, & C. Hatton (Eds.), Drama research methods: Provocations of practice. Sense Publications.
An ecology of care: Relationships and responsibility through the constitutive and creative acts of oral history theatre-making in local communities shouldering global crises
Gallagher, K., Cardwell, N. & Rodricks, D.J. (2018). An ecology of care: Relationships and responsibility through the constitutive and creative acts of oral history theatre-making in local communities shouldering global crises. In A. Harris, P. Thomson, & K. Snepvangers (Eds.), Creativity education: Policies, partnerships and ecologies (pp. 307-329). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Creating a self: Towards a theory of selfhood, relationality, and youth as cultural producers
Gallagher, K & Mealey, S. (2018). Creating a self: Towards a theory of selfhood, relationality, and youth as cultural producers. In Suzanne Burgoyne (Ed.), Creativity theory and action in theatre and drama education (pp. 133-152). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Queridos amigos en Bogotá
Gallagher, K. (2017). Queridos amigos en Bogotá (trans. Jorge Arcila). In A. Cortés Salcedo, & J. Arcila (Eds), Uaque: Práticas, éticas, estéticas e afectivas para la con-vivencia escolar. Bogotá Mejor: Para Todos.
Politics and Presence: A Theatre of Affective Encounters
Gallagher, K. (2016). Politics and Presence: A Theatre of Affective Encounters (pp. 67-82). In Gallagher, K., & B. Freeman (Eds.) In defence of theatre: Aesthetic practices and social interventions. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.
Introduction: Taking a Step Back
Freeman, B. and Gallagher, K. (2016). Introduction: Taking a Step Back. (pp. 3-18). In Gallagher, K., & B. Freeman (Eds.) In defence of theatre: Aesthetic practices and social interventions. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.
The Micro-political and the Socio-Structural in Applied Theatre with Homeless Youth
Gallagher, K. (2016). The Micro-political and the Socio-Structural in Applied Theatre with Homeless Youth. In H. Nicholson & J. Hughes (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Applied Theatre. Cambridge University Press.
Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Research: Affect and Reason by Way of Imagination
Gallagher, K. (2016). Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Research: Affect and Reason by Way of Imagination. In M. Zembylas & P. Schutz (Eds.), Methodological advances in research on emotion and education. Springer.
The Middle Place: Creating Intimacy with an Audience
Gallagher, K (2016). The Middle Place: Creating Intimacy with an Audience. In H. Fitzsimmons-Frey (ed.) Ignite: Illuminating Theatre for Young People (pp. 3-10). Toronto: Canada Playwrights Press.
Voix citoyennes dans un monde en crise
Gallagher, K. (2016). Voix citoyennes dans un monde en crise. Théâtre et éducation dans le monde: De nouveaux territoires d’utopies (pp. 41-47). Paris: Lansman Editeur.
Like a River…
Gallagher, K. (2015). Like a river… Foreword for Carter, M. M. Prendergast & G. Belliveau (eds.) Drama, Theatre and Performance Education in Canada: Classroom and Community Contexts. Canadian Association for Teacher Education/Canadian Society for the Study of Education. PolyGraph Ebook. ISBN: 978-0-9947451-1-8 Online 2015.
Performing Patriarchy: Indian Girls (En)Gender a Social Imaginary
Gallagher, K. (2015). Performing Patriarchy: Indian girls (en)gender a social imaginary. In. J. Kennelly, & S. R. Poyntz (Eds.), A Phenomenology of Youth Cultures: Meaning and Retrieval in an Era of Globalization. SUNY Press.
Chasing Change: Drama Education, Applied Theatre and the Ecology of Social Change
Gallagher, K. (2015). Chasing Change: Drama Education, Applied Theatre and the ecology of social change. In H. Fitzsimmons-Fry, & A. Babayants (Eds.), Theatre and Learning. Cambridge University Press.
Poetry, Metaphor and Performance: Literacy as a Philosophical Act
Gallagher, K. (i2015). Poetry, metaphor and performance: Literacy as a philosophical act. In J. Rowsell and K. Paul. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies. Routledge.
The Place of Bodies in the Order of Things
Gallagher, K. (2015). The place of bodies in the order of things. Forward in M. Perry, & C. Medina (Eds.), Methodologies of Embodiment: (In)scribing Bodies in Qualitative Research. New York: Routledge.
Responsible Art and Unequal Societies: Towards a Theory of Drama and the Justice Agenda
Gallagher, K. (2015). Responsible Art and Unequal Societies: Towards a Theory of Drama and the Justice Agenda. In M, Finneran & K. Freebody (Eds.), Drama & Social Justice: Theory, research and practice in international contexts. Routledge.
Drama and the Literacy of Lives in Progress
Gallagher, K. (2015). Drama and the Literacy of Lives in Progress. In Rowsell, J. and Sefton-Green, J. (Eds.) Revisiting Learning Lives: longitudinal perspectives on researching learning and literacy (pp. 164-182). New York: Routledge.
On the Pedagogical Importance of (Not) Knowing the Other: Listening, Risk, Drama and Difference
Gallagher, K & B. Yaman Ntelioglou. (2013). On the pedagogical importance of (not) knowing the other: Listening, risk, drama and difference. In M. Anderson & J. Dunn (Eds.), How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice (pp. 94-108). London: Continuum, Bloomsbury Academic.
(Lesbian) M/Otherhood as Contradiction: Love, Sexuality, and other (Imagined) Wonders
Conceptual, Epistemological and Methodological Challenges in Hypermedia Ethnography: A Boon for Ethnographic Analysis
Gallagher, K. & Freeman, B. (2012). Conceptual, epistemological and methodological challenges in hypermedia ethnography: A boon for ethnographic analysis. In S. M. Silva & P. Landri (Eds.), Rethinking education ethnography: Researching on-line communities and interactions (ISBN: 978-989-8471-04-8). Porto: CIIE – Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas.
Imagining Drama/Theatre and the Arts
Gallagher, K. (2012). A re-publication of Gallagher, K. (2005). Imagining Drama/Theatre and the Arts. In Leithwood, McAdie, Bascia and Rodrigue (Eds.), Teaching for Deep Understanding: Towards the Ontario curriculum that we need. Toronto: Corwin Press. (To be republished in R. Purnima International Perspectives on Theatre Arts. India.)
Putting Inner City Students First: Six Case Studies
Gallagher, K., R. Riviere, J. Flessa, J. Cummins, C. Fusco, S. Niyozov, & S. Stille. (2011). Putting Inner City Students First: Six Case Studies. In M. Evans & C. Rolheiser (Eds.), Inquiry into Practice (pp. 108-122).
Theatre as Methodology or, What Experimentation Affords Us
Gallagher, K. (2011). Theatre as Methodology or, What Experimentation Affords Us. In Schonmann S. (Ed.), Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education (pp. 327-331). Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publications.
Ethnography in School-Based, Performance Research: A Conversation with Kathleen Gallagher
Introduction
Moving Towards Postcolonial Methods in Qualitative Research: Contexts, Cameras, and Relationships
Excerpt from and new introduction to The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times
Gallagher, K. (2008). Excerpt from and new introduction to The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times. In B. Barton (Ed.), Collective Creation, Collaboration and Devising. Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English Volume 15. (pp. 182-189). Series General Editor: Ric Knowles. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press.
Building Theories of Their Lives: Youth Engaged in Drama Research
Gallagher, K. and Lortie, P. (2007). Building Theories of Their Lives: Youth Engaged in Drama Research. Thiessen, D. and Cooke-Sather, A. (Eds.), International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School (pp. 405-438). Springer Publishing.
Conceptions of Creativity in Drama Education
Gallagher, K. (2007). Conceptions of Creativity in Drama Education. In Bresler, L. (Ed.), International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (pp. 1229-1240). Springer Publishing.
(Post) Critical Ethnography in Drama Research
Gallagher, K. (2006). Critical Ethnography in Drama Research. In Ackroyd, J. (Ed.), Research Methodologies for Drama Education (pp. 63-80). London: Trentham Books.
La Fin de Siecle and the Pull of Opposites
Gallagher, K. (2005). La Fin de Siecle and the Pull of Opposites. In MacDonald, A. Belle moral: A natural history (pp. 3-10). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press and the Academy of the Shaw Festival. Second edition by Vintage. Reprinted in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
Imagining Drama/Theatre and the Arts
Gallagher, K. (2005). Imagining Drama/Theatre and the Arts. In Leithwood, McAdie, Bascia and Rodrigue (Eds.), Teaching for Deep Understanding: Towards the Ontario Curriculum That We Need. Toronto: Corwin Press.
Emergent Conceptions in Theatre Pedagogy and Production
Gallagher, K. (2003). Emergent Conceptions in Theatre Pedagogy and Production. In How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars and Advocates (pp. 3-13). Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.
Girls in the Company of Girls: Social relations and identity construction in single-sex drama education
Gallagher, K. (2002). Girls in the Company of Girls: Social relations and identity construction in single-sex drama education. In Datnow, E. and L. Hubbard (Eds.), Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single Sex and Coeducational Schooling (pp. 264-279). New York: Routledge Falmer.
Theater and Drama
Gallagher, K. (2002). Theater and Drama. In Robert Kastenbaum (Ed.), Two-Volume Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (vol. 2) (pp. 888-891). New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
Girls, Experience, and Voice
Gallagher, K. (1998). Girls, Experience, and Voice. In Booth, D. and Neelands, J. (Eds.), Writing in Role: Classroom projects connecting writing and drama (pp. 141-154). Hamilton: Caliburn Enterprises, Inc.
Drama studio in Tainan
"Theatre unfolds on a human scale. It’s the thing we can’t get with a documentary film or tv show. Theatre allows us to have encounters that would be otherwise impossible in the same room."
- Andrew Kushnir
Refereed Articles
The virtual as a performance venue in site-specific theatre: curating theatre research and liveness through the digital real.
Gallagher, K., Valve, L. and Tripathi, M. (under review). The virtual as a performance venue in site-specific theatre: curating theatre research and liveness through the digital real. Canadian Studies in Literature. Special Issue Trends in Drama and Performance.
Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments.
Gallagher, K., Allen, A. and Balt, C. (accepted). Harnessing speculative fiction to reimagine and rewrite our relationships to the climate crisis and the future of our local environments. Research in Drama Education: the journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. Special Issue.
Trans/Queer Representation and Drama: engendering new forms of empathy and relationality.
Gallagher, K. and T. Gokyilmaz (2023). Trans/Queer Representation and Drama: engendering new forms of empathy and relationality. Research in Drama Education: the journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 28 (3): 442-459. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BZP6VS7E9V3H6VEUQSHC/full?target=10.1080/13569783.2023.2205014
Losing and Finding Community in Drama: A Methodology-in-Motion for Pandemic Times.
Gallgher, K., Cardwell, N., and Tripathi, M. (2022) Losing and Finding Community in Drama: A Methodology-in-Motion for Pandemic Times. LEARNing Landscapes Journal. 15 (1): 159-173. Special Issue in Arts-based Performances, Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Pedagogy. https://learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/1069/1092
Arts-led, youth-driven methodology and social impact: “making what we need” in times of crisis.
Gallagher, K., Balt, C., Cardwell, N., & Valve, L. (2022). Arts-led, youth-driven methodology and social impact: “making what we need” in times of crisis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, (ahead-of-print), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2098404
Gallagher, K, N. Cardwell, D. Denichaud, and L. Valve (2022). The Ecology of Global, Collaborative Ethnography: Metho-pedagogical Moves in Research on Climate Change with Youth in Pandemic Times. Ethnography and Education.
Gallagher, K, L. Valve and D. Rodricks (2021). Census-Taking and Theatre-Making: Real and Imagined Perceptions and Experiences of School and Neighbourhood Safety for White and Racialized Youth. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.
Gallagher, K, L. Valve and C. Balt (2021). Building new publics: Using agile, community-engaged, and applied theatre methodologies as social intervention in audience research. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.
Gallagher, K., C. Balt and L. Valve (2021). Vulnerability, care and hope in audience research: theatre as a site of struggle for an intergenerational politics. Studies in Theatre and Performance, DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2020.1862998
The Aesthetics of Towards Youth: Making relations in and through theatre.
Gallagher, K. and A. Kushnir (2020). The Aesthetics of Towards Youth: Making Relations in and through Theatre. Theatre Research in Canada, 41 (2): 204-220. DOI: 10.3138/tric.41.2.a01
Performing care: Re-imagining gender, personhood, and education justice
A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s
Accuracy and ethics, feelings and failures: Youth experimenting with documentary practices of performing reality.
A Reconsideration of Social Innovation: Drama Pedagogies and Youth Perspectives on Creative and Social Relations in Canadian Schooling
Beyond mimesis to an assemblage of reals in the drama classroom: which reals? Which representational aesthetics? What theatre-building practices? Whose truths?
Hope despite hopelessness: Race, gender, and the pedagogies of drama/applied theatre as a relational ethic in neoliberal times
The gendered labor of social innovation: Theatre, pedagogy, and the girl-child in India
Gallagher, K. (2017). The gendered labor of social innovation: Theatre, pedagogy, and the girl-child in India. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1-16.
Drama in education and applied theatre, from morality and socialization to play and post-colonialism
Performing to understand: Cultural wealth, precarity, and shelter-dwelling youth
Performing counter-narratives and mining creative resilience: using applied theatre to theorize notions of youth resilience
Can a classroom be a family? Race, space, and the labour of care in urban teaching
The social habitus of drama: the Ontario drama curriculum in theory and practice
All gender is a performance, all performance gendered
“Listening to the affective life of injustice”: Drama pedagogy, race, identity and learning
Between the frames: Youth spectatorship and theatre as curated, ‘unruly’ pedagogical space
Becoming a networked public: Digital ethnography, youth, and global research collectives
Verbatim theatre and social research: Turning towards the stories of others
Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia, and the productive hazards of digital methods: a struggle for liveness
Roma refugee youth and applied theatre: Imagining a future vernacular
Emergent pedagogy and affect in collaborative research: A metho-pedagogical paradigm
Which new literacies?: Dialogue and performance in youth writing
In search of a theoretical basis for storytelling in education research: Story as method
Off the beaten track: A reflection on intention and unpredictability in arts education research
Applied theatre at the heart of educational reform: An impact and sustainability analysis
“It could have been so much better”: The aesthetic and social work of theatre
Theatre pedagogy and performed research: Respectful forgeries and faithful betrayals
When drama praxis rocks the boat: Struggles of subjectivity, audience and performance
I.D.ology and the technologies of public (school) space: An ethnographic inquiry into the neo-liberal tactics of social (re)production
Sexual fundamentalism and performances of masculinity: An ethnographic scene study
The aesthetics of representation: Dramatic texts and dramatic engagement
“How does knowin’ my business make you any safer?”: Critical pedagogy in dangerous times
Gallagher, K. (2004). The Art and Politics of Qualitative Research in Drama Education: Creating culture, representing ‘reality’. Drama Research, 4(1): 3-18.
Pink…with shades of grey: Mediating moments of diversity in urban secondary classrooms
Theories of the stage, social projects, and drama’s pedagogies
Dramatic Arenas for Ethical Stories
The staging of qualitative research: Authorship, ownership and artistic expression in social science inquiry
Gallagher, K. (2001). The Staging of Qualitative Research: Authorship, ownership and artistic expression in social science inquiry. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT), 17(3): 145-156.
Being in the world with Drama: Interrogated identification
Gallagher, K. (2001). Being in the World with Drama: Interrogated identification. Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies University of Toronto, 6: 1-22.
Action Research in the Intermediate Classroom: Learning history through drama
Gallagher, K. and Blaney, J. (2001). Action Research in the Intermediate Classroom: Learning history through drama. Drama Research, 2: 49-69.
Tabula Rasa: Starting afresh with classroom drama
The everyday classroom as problematic: A feminist pedagogy
Interrupting “truths,” engaging perspectives, and enlarging the concept of “human” in classroom drama
The influence of drama education on the action of curriculum
Essentially Different: Creative drama and the politics of experience in girls’ education
Gallagher, K. (1997). Essentially Different: Creative drama and the politics of experience in girls’ education. National Journal of Drama in Education (NJ), 21(2): 17-31.