Children as Performers, cocreators and coauthors

September 2025

This roundtable explores performance-based methods in research with children, questioning what adults must relinquish to foster collaborative, affective, and non-adult-centered approaches.

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About the Event

Conducting Research with Children

This roundtable explores the potential of performance based methods to cultivate collaborative, affective, and non-adult centered approaches in research with children. Framed by the central question, ‘What must we adults relinquish in order to conduct research with children?’, the event will bring together scholars, practitioners, and educators to examine the political implications and aesthetic possibilities embedded in methodological practices grounded in theatre, storytelling and performance.

Featured Sessions

Online Session

Date: September 15, 2025
Time: 10:00AM-12:00NN (GMT-3);
7:00-9:00AM São Paulo, BRT; 6:00-8:00PM Manila, PHST; 6:00-8:00AM New York, EDT; 11:00- London, BST

Organizers

Melissa Ferreira is a Brazilian scholar, researcher and artist working across a variety of creative, educational and community contexts. Her academic research focuses on the participation of children and young people as collaborators and performers in contemporary experimental theatre. She was a Visiting Scholar at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The City University of New York in 2019-2020. She was a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow at The State University of Campinas from 2018 to 2022. She received her PhD from the Program in Theater at The State University of Santa Catarina in 2014. She was an Assistant Professor at The Performing Arts Department at The State University of Santa Catarina from 2009 to 2017. Currently she is a National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Postdoctoral Fellow at The School of Education at The University of São Paulo, Brazil.

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