JoseyDeRossi 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
Digital archives give us access to many examples of pantomime scripts. Some of these are curated here, together with other the related materials. Radical Pantomime courses are devised to give young writers the skills to adapt historical artefacts into lively, relevant school productions
Description Of Radical Pantomime Courses Radical Pantomime Courses are for young writers in the middle school years. Courses focus on comedy writing modelled on the successful scripts of comedy writers who between 1850 and 1920 wrote, published and produced comic pantomimes in the English-speaking world globally. The writers are mostly forgotten today but in their … Read more
The pantomime is steeped in mythological metaphors that come from folk stories, fairy tales and religious symbolism. At the same time, pantomime stories show local problems to which audiences are personally and cultural related.
Drama Learning provides a unique framework of online professional training for creative practitioners, in school and community settings, who look to validate the last decade of breakthroughs made by performing and visual artists and cognitive scientists.
There’s good research showing the benefits of kids and parents reading together. Scholastic’s seventh edition of Kids And Family Reading Report builds on the theme for kids and parents reading together beyond the early years. Alarmingly, the research shows a rapid decline after a child turns 9. The infographic, contained within Scholastic’s 2017 report, shows … Read more
With so little time to talk about important curriculum matters, here’s a checklist of five points you might use to keep connected with colleagues and friends on how your creating curriculum content.
Curriculum design requires both creativity and rigour. I test this approach in THE NONSENSE PROJECT.