University Archive and Special Collections: Dorothy Heathcote collection
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VHS tapes of Dorothy Heathcote’s ‘Making Drama Work’, volumes 1-9
Dorothy Heathcote was a teacher who used drama to promote learning and education.
Collection history
In the 1970s and 1980s, whilst lecturing at Newcastle University, Dorothy Heathcote developed the "mantle of the expert" technique to support the use of drama across the curriculum.
Dorothy Heathcote became an internationally renowned authority on drama as education and worked in schools, crime institutions and hospitals.
We hold a video collection of her work in addition to a number of paper resources annotated by Heathcote.