Dorothy Heathcote on Education and Drama by Cecily O’Neill

Author:Cecily O’Neill
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317632498
Publisher: Routledge

12.

A life-size (cardboard) model with clothing (real) of a role. For example, ‘framed’ as if in a museum or salerooms. ‘This is the dress worn by Florence Nightingale when she met Queen Victoria after Scutari.’

(a)

Practical considerations – A cardboard model, or a dressmaker’s model will do. Use could be made of the school costume-cupboard here without the fear that the students will spoil the clothes or get involved in meaningless ‘dressing-up’.

(b)

Impact on students – Visual, immediate, through the reality and presence of the article. It is also tactile if students are allowed to touch the clothing. (This would depend on frame.)

(c)

Some implications for learning – It opens up the whole importance of what we wear (an issue that youngsters are highly aware of), and presents them with an opportunity to recognize the universal aspect of their expertise in this area instead of the emphasis being on the externals of changing fashion. Subtleties in appearance can also be engaged with. For example, noticing that ‘the dress was very worn but the collar was of the finest lace’.

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