The Dramatic Enquiry
Reveal Theatre recently took part in The Dramatic Enquiry research week. Since September 2007, a research community of teachers, learners and drama specialists, including Robert Marsden, have been working alongside lead practitioners Gordon Poad and James Nottingham to explore The Dramatic Enquiry, experimenting with strategies and techniques to apply the approach in classrooms.
In the longer term it is hoped that a training model can be developed and that a broader network of schools will be interested in exploring the potential for the Dramatic Enquiry by setting it at the heart of teaching and learning.
This June, Gordon Poad Director of Theatre Cap a Pie Associates and Robert Marsden worked with a team of actors, philosophers and drama practitioners alongside Chris Chapman from Haywood High, Burslem, to research, create and deliver a piece of action research for The Dramatic Enquiry entitled ‘The Happiness Machine’ (above). The team also included Grace Robinson, an Interdisciplinary Ethics and Philosophy Tutor at the University of Leeds and a P4C trainer.
A unique approach to developing creative and transferable thinking skills, forming the basis of a broad and balanced curriculum. It is a distinct fusion of philosophy for children and drama in education that encourages a motivated and questioning classroom. It will appeal to anybody who believes that children should play the leading roles in their own learning experience.
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