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
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.
Jennie [Vine] and I working with the teachers in a similar way to the way we expect the teachers to work with the children. We have coaching conversations according to what we know about them as teachers and where they are in their thinking and in their skills and in their abilities.
Children are natural philosophers from the time they start demandingly asking ‘Why?’ So perhaps it’s helpful to ask who are philosophers. The source of online wisdom, Wikipedia, informs us that the term “philosopher” comes from the Ancient Greek, φιλόσοφος (philosophos), meaning “lover of wisdom”. … In a modern sense, a philosopher is an intellectual who has contributed … Read more
The 1998 primary arts publication I worked on, which brought together a number of cross-curricular arts project for primary schools, is pictured on the right. As the resource was commissioned by five arts education associations, it was my role as chair of the joint committee to oversee the collection of exemplars of arts projects in … Read more
What do you think is meant by ‘doing the basics’? A debate rages around what constitutes essential knowledge and skills at every level of schooling – from early years to higher education. I want to propose that the arts sector has the ability to shift the debate by showing how there is no knowledge, … Read more