Addressing Academic Integrity Issues using Applied Theatre Methods

This book details the creative process, implementation and assessment of two applied theatre projects ("Common Knowledge" and "You Be the Judge") designed to foster reflection on academic integrity issues with students at Brock University. 

The book examines the usefulness of applied theatre in promoting academic integrity, to both ESL and non-ESL students. It focuses on how the nature of applied theatre can transcend the barriers of language. It shows with great detail on how applied theatre methods benefit ESL people in gaining confidence and a greater understanding of potentially new social norms.

Joe Norris, Professor Emeritus, taught drama in education and applied theatre in the Department of Dramatic Arts, at Brock University. He focused his teaching and research on fostering a playful, creative, participatory, and socially aware stance towards self and other. He is a recipient of the 2025 - Ted T. Aoki Award for Distinguished Service within the Field of Canadian Curriculum Studies from the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies; the 2025 Outstanding Achievement in Arts & Learning Award from the Arts and Learning of the American Educational Research Association; the 2015 Tom Barone Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts Based Educational Research from AERA s Arts Based Educational Research SIG. His book, Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-based Approach, received the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association s Qualitative Research SIG. Rick Sawyer and he have pioneered the development of the dialogic research methodology, duoethnography, with two books on this reflective dialogic approach. They received AERA s Division D s 2015 Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award for their book, Understanding Qualitative Research: Duoethnography. Joe continues to write, teach part-time, and remains active with Mirror Theatre.

Kevin Hobbs is Actor, Writer, Researcher, and Educator who employs narrative theory, performance and other artistic methodologies in his researc