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Action Research in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learning context: an educational study by means of the dramatic teaching approach Mantle of the Expert

1. Mantle of the Expert- Theoretical framework

Mantle of the Expert is a dramatic-inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning invented and developed by pioneer drama educator Professor Dorothy Heathcote (1926-2012) in the 1980s. It concerns the sociological – anthropological field of reality investigation and can be utilized as either a dramatic teaching method or a theatrical technique. Either technique creates a dramatic environment asking participants to undertake expert roles across the whole spectrum of the social and historic development (Heathcote & Herbert 1985).In general terms, Mantle of the Expert relies on three pedagogic modes of teaching: inquiry learning, drama for learning and expert framing, which involves children being placed as adult experts. Put it simply, Mantle of the Expert is about teachers allowing children to act as experts in an imaginary enterprise (Heathcote, & Bolton 1995).

December 16, 2020 • Theatre and Education • Views: 1729

Theatre in modern greek school. From ethnocentrism to multiculturalism.

Theatre constitutes that kind of educational communication system which not only corresponds to the equivalent existing reality and interacts with it, but also goes on further critism and revives, intervening constructively and shaping the minds of viewers, something which mainly occurs due to the dynamic image, the living example and experiential communion of spectators in scenes happenings as they occur in an interactive and bidirectional manner. Continue Reading

March 7, 2017 • Theatre and Education • Views: 3717

The new role of the teacher: the educator artist

The moralistic character and the educational role, as conditions «sine qua non» of theater, make this art a privileged means of public manipulation, consciousness forming agent, enriching its purely artistic nature with an equally important social dimension. Continue Reading

March 7, 2017 • Theatre and Education • Views: 4762

Dramatisation as School Teaching Method to approach classical texts

Task of the educator, regardless of his rank in the educational hierarchy, is to be an active mediator in the full contact of the student with the aspired knowledge, provided by him. Continue Reading

March 21, 2016 • Theatre and Education • Views: 19489

Pedagogical use of the storytelling in a contemporary educational environment

The folktale narration goes back to art and the tradition of oral speech, (Ong 1984: 1-12) in a period of time when there was no written speech. (Levy- Bruh 1985) Its context is the imaginary narration of events and actions with a natural/real or extra-terrestrial/supernatural character, which represented the initial source of knowledge and learning for the primitive man (Levi- Strauss 1966). Later, by becoming more sophisticated, it was turned into a special cultural expression of the people and was monopolized almost by a children’s audience and the literature for children (Biakolo 1999: 42-65). Continue Reading

October 26, 2015 • Theatre and Education, Theatre for Young Audiences • Views: 8030

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION STUDENT TEACHERS CROSS THE CULTURAL BORDERS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SHADOW THEATRE. Α CASE STUDY OF PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEG DEVELOPMENT

In the greater part of the literature on Science Education (SE), the act of teaching is viewed as a dynamic process, which can be described through the interactions of three main factors: the content that has to be taught and learnt; the students; and the teachers (e.g. Fenstermacher 1986, Kariotoglou 2002, 2006). Continue Reading

February 11, 2013 • Theatre and Education • Views: 6708