What Next For Curriculum Writers?

Reflections On Professor Geoff Masters Keynote at the Australian Council For Education Research Conference. Professor Masters poses some confronting questions. Why do education systems seemed fixed on sorting students into post-secondary pathways? And why was this at the expense of guaranteeing excellent progress of every student in the K-10 compulsory years of schooling?

Sources of laughter rearranged

Radical Pantomime Courses introduce young writers to creating comic stories for their local communities. They show how comedy is a socially powerful tool for bringing communities together. The images of different audiences watching a comic pantomime testify to the on-going tradition of comic pantomime in English theatre, as we see below in the illustration an … Read more

Laughter is the best medicine revisited

Introduction The benefits of laughter have been known for some time. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, the message is being constantly relayed through medical information sights that capitalise on the old saying that ‘laughter is the best medicine‘. However, as we know with good advice, the nodding reference to good advice is vastly … Read more

Benefits Of Comic Business

Why should we build a community of young comedy writers at this time? That is the question which I believe I can answer through twenty years of researching how writing comedy has been instrumental in the creation of one of the fastest growing industries in the 21st-century, the Creative and Cultural Industries The bottom line … Read more

About FLS

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