How should educators make full use of primary historical sources which are becoming more and more accessible online ? How will these cultural assets impact on the creation of cultural values in a digital age?
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The Young Philosophers’ Education Programme For Anxious Times Having a philosophical conversation about the state of the world is hazardous right now. As parents and teachers, we are caring for children while at the same time dealing with health, economic and psychological threats. In this anxiety-ridden context, reading and talking with our children and students … Read more
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Welcome, I’m Dr Josey De Rossi, Director of Fantastic Learning Systems. I set up FLS to share what I’ve learned about monetising an online creative learning business. This is because for all my artistic career I’ve sat between the job of creating theatre and teaching about it. Consequently, I’ve had decades practising what it means … Read more
Pantomime productions should be contextualised within the substantial body of ‘post-colonial’ research which implicates theatre industries in European and English colonialism and the racism which arose from imperialist ideologies. The theatre historians and cultural theorists that have informed us how this occurred globally include Veronica Kelly, Helen Gilbert, Jacqueline Lo, Jacky Bratton, Jim Davis and Tracey C. Davis.
I look at entrepreneurs and their use of technologies to develop modern creative industries. I specifically examined the powerful trends of local pantomime producers to create sustainable work in a ‘gig economy’. In the last five years I have been re-writing my initial findings to establish ways the pantomime context can teach employability and entrepreneurial skills to K-10 students.
Why In The World Are We Here? is not an ordinary children’s picture book. It is a philosophical text focused on raising questions about how values and beliefs give our lives meaning. View what the author has to say about bringing ‘philosophy and magic’ to children in the following video. Just to be clear, though, … Read more
We believe that there are key examples from theatre history which show how the performing arts have been a vital part of creating entrepreneurial cultures globally. Indeed, Dr Fantasia’s doctoral research Entrepreneurs, Empires and Pantomimes (1997) discovered many pantomime productions, staged between the 1850s to the 1920s, which ‘fit the bill’. The productions are unlike the Cinderellas, Aladdins and Sinbads that are staged today. Rather, they offer a radical alternative that explores themes such as women’s rights, the spread of democracy, cultural diversity, civil rights, racial prejudice, gender roles and sexual identity. Although no longer staged, this older form of pantomime has a more direct line to the Commedia dell’Arte origins of the form that satirises the greed, cowardice and morally reprehensible nature of autocratic power (i.e Pantalone, Dottore etc). They particularly demonstrate the quick-wittedness of Arlecchino and Colombina and other Zanni via their anti-heroic, nonsensical antics of surviving difficulties and dilemmas.
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