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Second drama education symposium in Auckland

Very excited about Peter O’Connor’s second ‘Critical Studies in drama in education’ symposium coming up in Auckland at the beginning of December. Peter ran the first of these last year and it was a fabulous event. This year’s symposium is a great chance to catch some of the latest research from big international names in drama education from around NZ and Australia (the list from Oz includes John O’Toole, Michael Anderson, Penny Bundy, Helen Cahill, Kelly Freebody).

This event will particularly appeal to those undertaking postgraduate study in drama education, including Mantle of the Expert – as it also includes a ‘collaboratory’ for Masters and PhD students to share their research and network. For more information click this link

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New link to blog – Mantle at HNS

Viv has taken the technological bull by the horns and set up a new blog!

The purpose is to record the happenings as they unfold with a Mantle currently being run with Lynette’s class at Hillcrest Normal School. This is the third year Lynette has kindly let me and my student teachers work in her class and we thought it might be interesting for people to follow along as we plan, implement and discover together… Thanks to Irene, the school principal, and Gay, the DP for permission to share the work in this way.

You can visit the blog by going to ‘Links’

I will be updating the blog regularly and welcome your comments – and advice – either here or direct into the blog

If others are interested in starting their own blogs too please do – we can link them from this site as we have done with Priya’s wonderful example – To set yourself up I recommend ‘blogspot’ as very easy to use even for beginners like me!