'From "Mantle" to Expertise - The Arc of Creative Partnerships'
1 Apr 2009
Young children learning in a classroom; cover image for the publication by Shelby Wolf, 'From the 'Mantle' to Expertise' - Creative Partnerships Durham & Sunderland
Area Delivery Organisation: The Centre for Creativity and Learning, University of Sunderland
A new publication from CP Durham Sunderland.
For over four years, Shelby Wolf from the University of Colorado has been conducting research on the partnership between Bexhill Primary School, Sunderland and County Durham’s Theatre Cap-a-Pie.
Over the years, the research has concentrated on the role of drama in the lives of teachers, artists, and children.
The story of the first year of this partnership was told in Dramatic Learning in the Primary School (Heath & Wolf, 2005: Creative Partnerships). These booklets followed four teachers and their children through a variety of dramatic experiences.
As the work progressed, Wolf’s research honed in on two Bexhill teachers, Linda Nesbitt and Lesley Watson, as they developed a close working relationship with Gordon Poad and Mark Labrow from Theatre Cap-a-pie. These four adults and the children in Linda’s Year Two class created a play: The Amazing Adventures of Mary Lou and the Ice Cream Pirates – a process documented in A Playwright’s Life for Me! Young Children’s Language and Learning Through Drama (Wolf, 2006: Creative Partnerships).
January 2009 saw the publication of the fourth and final research story in the sequence:
From the “Mantle” to Expertise: The Arc of Creative Partnerships.
ISBN: 978-0-7287-1416-8
available from Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland
