Creating meaning through theatre: a qualitative and phenomenological study exploring the positive power of theatre for adolescent girls in a single-sex private high school
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examines the link between theatre and positive development in adolescent girls. Using Portraiture and Performative Inquiry methodologies, I worked closely with eight girls at a private single-sex school in Montreal over the course of eight months, teaching a theatre curriculum that allows students to create their own dramatic works by looking at topics of concern to them and performing in front of their peers. The theatre class developed their communication, expression and imagination, among other skills. My research also shows how theatre allowed the participants to create deeper bonds of friendship, develop a sense of empathy and an understanding of others, and a greater ability to express their experiences, thoughts and feelings. These abilities enabled a shared experience with their peers and an understanding that they have anxieties, perceptions and fears in common with others. Therefore, this study shows how important it is for theatre to be an essential part of the high school curriculum, since it not only benefits adolescents in their present lives, but also develops individual capacities that will serve them in the future.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".