Dorothy Heathcote
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Dorothy Heathcote (29 August 1926- ) is a self-taught creator of a unique methodology based on the use of drama as a tool to stimulate holistic learning. This method can be used in unlimited applications at all levels from the elementary classroom to the corporate training.
She was born Dorothy Shutt in Steeton, West Yorkshire and worked as a weaver in a woollen mill until studying at the Northern Theatre School in Bradford and subsequently becoming a lecturer in drama in education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
