There is a great deal happening at the moment, both nationally and internationally in regards to the development of mantle of expert and education in general. Very soon, possibly as soon as May, there is going to be a general election. Inevitably education is going to be high on the agenda of all the political parties and we hope whoever wins they will continue the movement towards integrated learning and the focus on the importance of speaking and listening.

We welcome the publication of the new primary curriculum, in particular the emphasis on developing the skills of literacy, numeracy and ICT across the curriculum and the conception of learning as a process of developing meaning and understanding…

18th June 2010: This conference will be of interest to school leaders, class teachers, governors, advisers and others engaged in creating meaningful, relevant and challenging educational experiences for children.

The day will be a rare opportunity to participate in a guided discussion with colleagues, experts and children on the future of education and the challenges and opportunities created by the publication of the new primary curriculum due for implementation in September 2011.

Super Seminars (www.superseminars.co.uk) is a new approach to professional and school development, especially for Heads, Senior Managers and Curriculum Coordinators. 17 leaders in their curriculum fields have agreed to give presentations tailored to the specific concerns of seminar delegates including Curriculum Purpose and Design, Critical and Creative Thinking, Learning to Learn, PLTS, Philosophy with Children, and many more at the forefront of curriculum development.

Call for Papers & Proposals
WCCES (World Council of Comparative Education Societies)
XIV World Congress
Bordering, Re-Bordering and New Possibilities in Education and Society
Bogazici University, Istanbul, 14th – 18th June 2010

Following the tremendous success of the first MoE conference Gwent Theatre have decided to offer a second opportunity for students, teachers and teacher trainers to benefit from this invaluable training opportunity.
As a part of the National Association for the Teaching of Drama’s (NATD) network of regional events we are offering a second conference for those who missed last year’s.

Please visit this page to download Dorothy Heathcote’s recent essay on creativity for the London Borough of Redbridge.

This interview was with a group of Year 3 children from Tuckswood First School, Norwich in 2005. The children talk about the learning events of the year that have had the most impact on them and why they think drama is so important.

Dorothy Heathcote teaches a series of six two hour lessons to a group of 11 & 12 year old pupils from Camps Bay Primary School. She demonstrates how to use the pupil’s ideas and then structure a meaningful learning experience for them.

We have started the process of digitising the Heathcote Archive housed at Manchester Metropolitan University. The archive is a collection of papers, books and resources collected by Dorothy Heathcote during her long career as a teacher and academic at Newcastle University. It includes many articles written by Heathcote and her students, as well as academic dissertations for MED, M-PHIL and PHD. There is also a large library of video material.
Some of the papers are notes written by Heathcote from the very earliest days of the development of mantle of the expert. Although some of these are now in less than perfect condition they will be of great interest to students of Prof. Heathcote and her mantle of the expert approach.
As a beginning we have digitised and uploaded 28 papers.

conventions-notesThe first weekend of the mantle of the expert advanced course was held at Ringsfield Hall on December 11th-13th, 2009
The following are links to books and resources used and refered to during the course:
Peter Brook – The Empty Space
Jerzy Grotowski – Towards a Poor Theatre
Ruth Beall Heinig – Improvisation with Favorite Tales
Jerome Bruner – Toward [...]