Many years ago, when I was still relatively new to the process of dramatic inquiry and Mantle of the Expert, I spent a day working in a school with a class of six-year-old students. They were studying a topic based on the story by Oscar Wilde called ‘The Selfish Giant.’ Working together, we set up … Read more
Teaching children to write creatively is one of the most difficult, yet rewarding, teaching tasks we do. It is difficult because it requires a number of different parts to come together at once: the technical aspects of writing – grammar, punctuation, syntax, etc. – the imagination of the student, and something to write about – … Read more
Viv Aitken and Tim Taylor look at the realities of Mantle of the Expert around the world. Part of a series of online events in the run up to the Dorothy Heathcote Now International Drama Conference 2023. For more about Dorothy Heathcote, go to: https://www.mantlenetwork.com
What if I told you, you had a superpower? A power so common place and ordinary we hardly give it a second thought, yet so powerful it has transformed the world and the evolution of our species. This superpower is free, instantly available, and limitless. It works whenever we want it and sets us apart … Read more
‘Try This…’ is a book written to utilise the extraordinary power of stories to communicate and make knowledge memorable. Stories are powerful contexts for learning. Long before the invention of writing, humans communicated knowledge through the medium of storytelling. They wove information and cultural wisdom into narratives that could be memorised and passed down from … Read more