Issue 26 (2025)
Issue 26, December 2025
Hala Al-Yamani, Abdelfattah Abusrour, Fadel Alsawayfa, Georgia Antoniou, Iman Aoun, Rand Barakat, Marina Barham, Khitam Edelbi, Maria Filippopoulou-Iosifidou, Alaa Al Jabari, Marina Johnson, Jenny Karaviti, Mahdi Karira, Anastasia Lazaraki, Konstantinos Mastrothanasis, Khalid Massou, George Matar, Antigoni Parousi, Shams Almanal Timraz, Maria Tzovenaki, Eugenia Zagoura, Fidaa Ziad
"Education & Theatre Journal", Issue 26, 2025
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
journal@theatroedu.gr / info@theatroedu.gr / 2106541600
ISSN 1109-821X
Contents
Α note from the editorial board
●Research articles
Enhancing the resilience of children and adolescents through drama pedagogy in times of crisis
Maria Filippopoulou-Iosifidou and Konstantinos Mastrothanasis
●Viewpoint
Our Michael Meschke
Antigoni Parousi
●Conference reports
“Theatre/Drama and Inclusive Education”: Highlights from the International Conference in Athens
Georgia Antoniou, Anastasia Lazaraki and Eugenia Zagoura
●Dissertation synopsis
Student theatre performance in high schools in Cyprus: Framework, process and outcome
Maria Tzovenaki
Insert - Palestine: Performing arts as resistance, resilience and sumud
Introductory note
The international community celebrates the World Day for Drama/Theatre in Education, with actions inside and outside of schools, around the world. This year, the journal "Education & Theatre" has set a date for publication two days later, on November 29, 2025.
A scientific journal that publishes one issue per year follows, to the extent possible, developments in research, theory and practice in the field, without always being able to catch on with daily current events. However, it is no longer possible to remain mere witnesses, in the face of an ongoing, visible in real time, humanitarian catastrophe, such as the genocide unfolding in Palestine. The theatre/drama-pedagogical community does not remain unaffected, as it cannot ignore the pedagogical and political aspect of the art of theatre. In this context, we considered it important in this issue to turn to Palestine and, beyond promoting local research, to give space to theatre-pedagogical voices on the ground, which with consistency and remarkable endurance contribute to the international debate on the power of theatre as a pedagogical and social act.
In the insert entitled: “Palestine: performing arts as resistance, resilience and sumud”, we are transported to where theatre and the performing arts function as fields of artistic expression but also of social empowerment, psychosocial resilience, resistance and healing. From Gaza and Hebron to Bethlehem and Jerusalem, drama and theatre acquire the character of experiential testimony and collective upliftment, offering children, young people and communities tools for meaning and survival in conditions of constant trial. Members of the university community, artists, theatre/drama educators and facilitators, as well as activists shed light on examples of research, good practices and actions that have been organized for years.
Issue 26 is published in English today, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. In a few days, the issue will be published in Greek and the full insert will be published in Arabic, in honor of its contributors.
We hope that these narratives will serve as bridges of understanding, dialogue and solidarity within the international community of education and the performing arts.
●Research articles
Echoes of resistance: The role of storytelling and performing arts in preserving Palestinian identity
Khitam Edelbi and Shams Almanal Timraz
Using Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Men in the Sun to explore Palestinian youth’s perceptions of the notions of emigration and homeland
Hala Al-Yamani, Abdelfattah Abusrour and Fadel Alsawayfa
Rehearsing pedagogy: Arts-based education as creative practice in Palestinian higher education – A case study of the MA Programme in Creative Pedagogies and Community Practices at Bethlehem University
Rand Barakat
●Innovative programmes
Beautiful Resistance: Arts for positive change
Abdelfattah Abusrour
The Gaza monologues Part I: A transnational theatrical movement of witnessing and resistance
Marina Johnson
When theatre becomes a refuge: The empowering journey of Al-Harah Theatre for Palestinian children
Marina Barham and George Matar
An inclusive theatre programme by Inad Theatre and its role in education: Analysis of a training programme
Khalid Massou
No one is free, until everyone is free: How the actions for Palestine align with the goals of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network
Jenny Karaviti
●Interviews
The Gaza Monologues Part II: Iman Aoun in conversation with Marina Johnson
Arts in the service of promoting values: The experience of establishing the artist group “We” in Gaza during the war
Alaa Al Jabari, Mahdi Karira, Fidaa Ziad in conversation with Jenny Karaviti