Dorothy Heathcote (1926- ) Collection 1971-2005

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Dorothy Heathcote (1926- ) Collection 1971-2005

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The Dorothy Heathcote Collection combines material collected by Anne Thurman and Betty Jane Wagner, and fills nine boxes (of which six contain audio cassettes), spanning the years 1971 to 2005. The collection sheds light on Heathcote's methods and her influence on other drama educators. The bulk of the materials consist of transcripts from Heathcote's sessions and courses, and audio cassettes

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Heathcote, Dorothy

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Drama teacher, Dorothy Heathcote was born in 1926 into a family of mill-weavers in Yorkshire, England. After studying at Northern Theatre School in Bradford, she took a position as a lecturer in drama education at University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1950.Without any formal teacher training, she developed a unique way of using drama to teach children various subjects, including moral standards. Rather than emphasizing drama primarily for the audience's enjoyment, Heathcote focused o...

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Speech

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Founded in 1985, Northwestern University's Institute for Modern Communications (IMC) is an interdisciplinary program of media studies designed to promote scholarship that does not neatly fit the curricula of either the School of Speech or the Medill School of Journalism. The Institute's philosophy unites theory and practice, research and teaching, scholarship and production. In the fall of 1983, President Strotz and the Board of Trustees identified mass communication as ...