Drama as Method: Conceptualizing the Work of Teacher as Ethnographer
Drama in education (DiE) pioneered by Heathcote aims to help students access and understand a wide range of human experiences through the dramatic.
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Heathcote’s Practice-led Teaching: Pioneering Research as well as Pioneering Pedagogy
It is widely recognized that Dorothy Heathcote was a dynamic and radical teacher who transformed and continually reinvented drama teaching.
Risking Heuristics: Towards a classification of key features of Mantle of the Expert through the metaphor of the korowai
Drawing on the language and values of korowai weaving, the author presents Mantle of the Expert as having underlying philosophies (tikanga), core elements (whenu) and a whole set of interwoven signature pedagogies (aho).
A critical appraisal of the defining features of Heathcote’s methodology and their impact on the delivery of Mantle of the Expert in classrooms.
This paper considers the breadth of Heathcote’s educational drama methodologies.
Heathcote in Sweden – just passing by?
The first written introduction to Dorothy Heathcote’s work was published in Swedish in 1974, while she herself visited Sweden to teach in the early 1980s. How has drama for learning, i.e. process drama, evolved since then?
In the Thick of It: Proximities of Belonging in Drama Research
Themes of belonging: to a group, identity, culture and place have dominated education and performance research in recent years.
Volume 5 Editorial Board
Pamela Bowell
Amanda Kipling
Chris Lawrence
Volume 5 Editorial
Dorothy Heathcote, who died on 8th October 2011, had a remarkable, crucial influence on the development of drama in education across the world. Her pioneering work with teachers and the broader community of educators and those they teach, developed a body of practice and philosophy that was innovative, radical and, at times, controversial. She was inspirational.
Drama Research Volume 5
April 2014