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.
Drama in education (DiE) pioneered by Heathcote aims to help students access and understand a wide range of human experiences through the dramatic.
It is widely recognized that Dorothy Heathcote was a dynamic and radical teacher who transformed and continually reinvented drama teaching.
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).
This paper considers the breadth of Heathcote’s educational drama methodologies.
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?
Themes of belonging: to a group, identity, culture and place have dominated education and performance research in recent years.
Pamela Bowell
Amanda Kipling
Chris Lawrence
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.
April 2014
This paper presents a mini ethnographic study focusing on students’ discussions of dramatic elements in the plays and films of Titus Andronicus and The Importance of Being Earnest.