ABSTRACT
Hot seating is a technique where teachers or learners are placed ‘in role’ and questioned about being that character, object or living organism. A teacher or child in the hot seat can also ‘be’ someone reflecting on a particular event or experience. The person in the ‘hot seat’ usually sits on a chair and is somewhat in the ‘spotlight’ when questioned by the others in class. Other learners ask the ‘hot seated’ character(s) questions (see Figure 4.1). The person in-role in the hot seat might be an expert, a character with a point of view or an object or living thing that others are asking questions about/of.
