Above: Shango Baku - Actor and Artistic Director of CETTIE

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CETTIE's stated aim in its constitution is to promote tolerance and understanding between (young) people from diverse backgrounds. We kicked off in 1986 in Britain using inclusive models we had developed in the Caribbean. Drama was key to our holistic approach. It ensured equal and active participation by all - students and teachers alike. We demonstrated how drama could be used in single subjects and across the curriculum to involve and enthuse students in 'active' learning, with implications for identity, mutual respect and societal awareness, within a highly diversified and multi-racial community...and world. Social equity and inter-racial tolerance were the cornerstones on which we built a raft of widely diverse projects. In fact, CETTIE was/is a tacit indictment of modern educational methods that seemed light years behind the realities of today's global world.

Written by:
Shango Baku
Artistic Director, CETTIE

To read and download a copy of the Key Stage 3 study unit on Identity and Diversity that was specifically developed for Who Do We Think We Are? by CETTIE, please select the following link to the Learning Resources Database featured on this website..

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