http://www.mantleoftheexpert.com A dramatic-inquiry approach to teaching and learning Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:49:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.mantleoftheexpert.com/community/forum/comment-page-1/#comment-785 Bernard O'Connor Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:41:06 +0000 http://www.moeplanning.co.uk/?page_id=97#comment-785 Drama rescued my early teaching career, and as I have learnt since it has been the language, practise and pedagogical reasoning of your drama which has continued to help me make the best possible sense of the brief yet crucial learning relationship between children and myself and which has supported me in many, many dialogues with other colleagues and friends in this much maligned profession of ours. I may not teach for all of my working life but had it not been for you and others, children and I would not have shared the countless inspirational times we have done. And if I am ever again asked at conference to be the one to nod in your direction when the hour is up, I shall politely decline the responsibility: the look on you face... Congratulations, Dorothy. Drama rescued my early teaching career, and as I have learnt since it has been the language, practise and pedagogical reasoning of your drama which has continued to help me make the best possible sense of the brief yet crucial learning relationship between children and myself and which has supported me in many, many dialogues with other colleagues and friends in this much maligned profession of ours. I may not teach for all of my working life but had it not been for you and others, children and I would not have shared the countless inspirational times we have done.
And if I am ever again asked at conference to be the one to nod in your direction when the hour is up, I shall politely decline the responsibility: the look on you face…
Congratulations, Dorothy.

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