An analysis of the work of Dorothy Heathcote relating to drama as a learning medium.
Born in 1926 Dorothy Heathcote was an advocate of drama as a learning medium throughout her professional life. She died aged 85 in 2011. Noting the importance of Dorothy’s three Rs (rigour’ realisation and responsibility)’ this dissertation evaluates the on-going contribution that her theories of drama in learning have in primary school classes today. Interviewing PGCE practitioners’ existing teachers and dram workshop co-ordinators’ this is a dissertation that not only reviews the theories espoused by Dorothy Heathcote but also contextualises them with reference to existent dominant pedagogical trends: a dissertation that cross academic disciplines’ this would ideally suit a drama student who wishes to pursue a career in teaching.
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