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The use of performance to help activate curiosity and learning in children and adults is the topic of this chapter. Starting with the U.K.’s Theatre in Education movement, it goes on to Dorothy Heathcote’s Mantle of the Expert approach, which turns the classroom into a long performance workshop (usually six weeks) in which students and teachers perform various roles within an imaginary situation. India’s Kerala Forum for Science and Literature, a multi-generational project that uses performance to popularize science education among the poor is included. Examined in some detail is Theatre for Development, which in Sub-Saharan African works to educate the rural population in modern health and social mores.
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For a full biography of Heathcote, see Bolton (2003).
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All of these examples and many more can be found in Heathcote and Bolton (1995).
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For example: Lindow Community Primary School, Wilmslow, Cheshire (Lindow Community Primary School, n.d.); Sparhawk Infant and Nursery, Sprowstan, Norwich (Sparhwak Infant and Nursery, n.d.); Bowsland Green Primary School, Bradley Stoke, South Gloucestershire (Bowsland Green Primary School, n.d.).
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Friedman, D. (2021). Educating. In: Performance Activism. Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80591-3_10
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