
In the late 1970s, a drama practitioner named Dorothy Heathcote found herself wondering how to improve her annual Nativity production: ‘It began to dawn on me: people had to have a point of view. The point of view of inn-keeping, the point of view of soldiers who are working for Rome, the point of view of angels, the point of view of kings. And that's when it started coming together.’
Following on from these initial thoughts, Heathcote would spend several years working with graduate students at Newcastle University developing her ideas into what would come to be known as the Mantle of the Expert (MoE) approach.
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