Mantle of the Expert and related drama practices

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Mantle of the Expert and the related drama
practices of Dorothy Heathcote

• Luke Abbott Drama practitioner

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The ABC of the work

• All people are in the role together
• Being there is the key skill-its all about make
  believe knowledge skills and understanding.
• Something to care about, where concern begins to
  build the forward narrative from the dust
  created by the people involved. So the hunt is on
  for tension!

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Key tools...

• Signs and Portents
• Dramatic Action
• The ingredients of drama
• L2L practices (Desforges et alia)
• AfL practices (BlackWiliam)
• MoE ingredients

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Contexts for potential

• A road worker is very perplexed by the discovery
  made just before leaving for home. Three huge
  holes have appeared around the site which seem to
  be bottomless.
• An immediate concern is for the safety of the
  local people.
• The next action is to contact a superior.

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Sequencing the learning

• ATTRACTION
• ATTENTION
• INTEREST
• MOTIVATION
• CONCERN
• INVESTMENT
• OBSESSION

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Creating dramatic action

• ACTION
• MOTIVATION
• INVESTMENT
• MODEL
• STANCE

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Mysteries R Us- Givens

• They have a building they operate from.
• They have a set of values they operate from.
• They have a range of areas of expertise they have
  developed.
• They have a record of their working practices.
• THEY ARE A BUSINESS.
• They are responsive to peoples safety.

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Client Relationship

• Mantle of the Expert relies on a dynamic
  relationship between clients and the enterprise
  personnel.
• These can be constructed by practitioners as
  memos for example or using the list of dramatic
  conventions in SPs.
• This allows for narrative shifts!

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Values and Learning

• The system is one that seeks to instill human
  values.
• The tensions explored are deeply embedded in the
  values held and investigated by the participants.
• So what are they?

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Dramatic Learning

• The system is about education and learning to
  learn first.
• The system exploits all the 5 generic dramatic
  ingredients.
• Practitioners are constantly challenged to find
  ways to exploit dramatic conventions in Signs
  and Portents.

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Ingredients of drama

• Its about people created by people.
• Participants take a role that is distanced from
  their real life role.
• It happens in the now of time.
• Tensions are explored that have either
  happened-will happen or are currently happening.
• The context can be reflected upon beyond the
  actions experienced.

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Context 2 -Wolf Conservancy Organisation

• Some questions
• 1. What potential is there for anything to be
  learnt about people?
• 2. What might you invent as a key value it
  might hold?
• 3. Where might your key value be found in the
  organisation?
• 4. What does it look like?

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Assessment? Who does it?

• Assess the learning planned.
• Assess the learning to learn skills deployed.
• Assess the state of the community of learners.
• Assess the impact of the learning.
• THESE ALL REQUIRE THE USE OF CANNY QUESTIONS AND
  QUESTIONING!

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