{"id":1866,"date":"2024-05-13T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2024-05-13T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:07:30","slug":"teaching-differently-developing-creative-agency-in-the-special-school-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/teaching-differently-developing-creative-agency-in-the-special-school-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Differently: Developing Creative Agency in the Special School Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/OTC-logo_-1024x540.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1870\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/OTC-logo_-1024x540.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/OTC-logo_-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/OTC-logo_-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/OTC-logo_-1536x811.png 1536w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/OTC-logo_-2048x1081.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health (SDHRC) has partnered with Open Theatre Company (OTC) to research and evaluate\u00a0<em>Teaching Differently: Developing Creative Agency in the Special School Classroom,\u00a0<\/em>a three-year\u00a0project, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The project aims to see arts-based learning embedded in special school\u2019s curricula and practice long term. OTC has been running non-verbal physical theatre sessions in special schools for over 20 years, developing practice through working with young people with learning disabilities (YPWLD), learning from, and responding to them, with the development of agency at its centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OTC are keen to make a strategic shift from its work being seen as \u2018enrichment\u2019, to it being \u2018fundamental\u2019 to the education of YPWLD, supporting them in four key areas:\u00a0<em>creativity<\/em>,\u00a0<em>agency<\/em>,\u00a0<em>capability<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>connection<\/em>. Its\u00a0<em>Teaching Differently<\/em>\u00a0project focuses on developing an embedded teacher training project, equipping teachers to utilise the responsive, explorative nature of Open Theatre\u2019s practice across their entire school provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nina Worthington, Principal Research Fellow at the SDHRC, is researching and evaluating this project alongside Charlotte Grainger, Research Assistant. Supported by Holly Bateman, lead practitioner for\u00a0<em>Teaching Differently<\/em>, the SDHRC is working with OTC staff, teachers, and young people across two special schools for the duration of the project. Our mixed methods approach is enabling unique data to be collected via questionnaires, interpretative phenomenological analysis interviews, and observations of OTC\u2019s practice. The research aims to support OTC in developing its training programmes and understanding its practice, principles, and the role of its practitioners for YPWLD, to develop effective teacher training, disability understandings, and future possibilities for theatre practice and education.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/ot-t.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/ot-t.png 880w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/ot-t-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/05\/ot-t-768x589.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health (SDHRC) has partnered with Open Theatre Company (OTC) to research and evaluate\u00a0Teaching Differently: Developing Creative Agency in the Special School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Charlotte Grainger","postExcerpt":"The Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health (SDHRC) has partnered with Open Theatre Company (OTC) to research and evaluate\u00a0Teaching Differently: Developing Creative Agency in the Special School [&hellip;]","featuredImage":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/sidney-de-haan-research-centre-for-arts-and-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}