Bateman, TishCoetzee, Marie-Heleen2019-05-282018Tish Bateman & Marié-Heleen Coetzee (2018) Dramatizing gender: Exploring gender constructs through drama-based strategies, Youth Theatre Journal, 32:2, 124-137, DOI: 10.1080/08929092.2018.1529470.0892-9092 (print)1948-4798 (online)10.1080/08929092.2018.1529470http://hdl.handle.net/2263/69217This article explores the ways in which drama-based strategies were used to stimulate critical inquiry into constructs of power, gender and sexual orientation amongst a group of Grade 10 learners. Drama, with its emphasis on the human condition; and drama-based strategies (in specific role-play) with their empathetic, metaxical and metacognitive possibilities, are appropriate means to do so. By referring to learners’ reflections on learning sessions, the article demonstrates how drama-based strategies, used as instructional tools, revealed the ways in which they understood gender constructs and how the sessions fostered critical (if not ontological) inquiry.en© 2018 American Alliance for Theatre and Education. This is an electronic version of an article published in Youth Theatre Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 124-137, 2018. doi : 10.1080/08929092.2018.1529470. Youth Theatre Journal is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/uytj20.Drama-based strategiesSexual orientationPowerGenderPostprint Article