Learning That Matters : Revitalising Heathcote’s Rolling Role for the Digital Age / by Susan Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Susan., Author.

Series:

Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

This book presents research and practice which revitalises Heathcote’s ‘Rolling Role’, an innovative trans-disciplinary model which connects the work of multiple classes to engage in collaborative imaginative work. The original model was developed by legendary teacher Dorothy Heathcote, an educational innovator who gained international fame for her transformational work centred on dramatic framing to activate meaningful and important learning. She developed models that encouraged teachers to curate powerful learning experiences through careful planning, framing, enactment and reflection. Teacher-in-Role and Mantle of the Expert are the most well known of her strategies, approaches where the teacher exercises high selectivity in a range of meditational tools and means, so as to empower students as agents with the power to ‘act’. While the Rolling Role model is less well known, Heathcote herself believed that it had great potential to be realised through using websites and digital technologies. In the wake of her passing and ongoing examinations of her legacy, a practical exploration was initiated to reconceptualise the Rolling Role model through the use of digital platforms. The resulting project, ‘The Water Reckoning’, was an international project which engaged students in exploring ideas related to climate change, water-based catastrophe and human resilience. Further analysis and archival research have informed a deeper understanding of key principles for implementing Rolling Role and its potential for global collaboration and learning. This work has included close analysis of a set of 16 videotapes Heathcote created as a set of consultations for teachers. The book therefore collects together for the first time accounts regarding the historical development of the Rolling Role system, examples of its use and reflections on its application through the use of digital technologies. Rolling Role has the potential to be applied in a wide range of educational contexts with its focus on engaged learning, and learning that ‘matters’.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Rolling Role as an Educational Innovation

Introduction

Innovations in Education

Contemporary Relevance and Reworking

Conclusions

Theoretical Framing: Heathcote, Vygotsky, and Cultural-Historical Theory

Heathcote and Vygotsky

Vygotskian Concepts Related to Learning and Development

Vygotsky on Creativity, Imagination and Drama

‘CHAT’ as a Frame for Systemic Analysis

Heathcote and History: Genesis of the Rolling Role Model

Dorothy Heathcote – Subject Formation and Discovery of Her ‘Object’

Progression of Ideas and Work

The Spread of Her Work and Influence on the Field

Transformative Pedagogy – Drama for Learning and Development

Drama and the Process of Engagement; Conclusions

Rolling Role History: The Development of a System for Meaningful Learning

Heathcote’s Definition of Rolling Role

The Initiating Project

Elaborations and Development

The History of Trevelyan Chapel – Joan Kerley Masters Project

Collaborations with Claire Armstrong Mills

Teacher Professional Development

Summary of the Key Elements of Rolling Role

The Rolling Role Videotapes: Analysis and Synthesis of the Model

The Rolling Role Video Series

Rolling Role as an Activity System and Process

Rolling Role in Practice: Planning and Practice from the Classroom

Rolling Role Planning for Video Series

Rolling Role in the Classroom – 1994 Madame Lingard project

Rolling Role and the Dynamics of Engagement

The Water Reckoning: A Case Study of an International Digitally Mediated Project

The Water Reckoning Project as an Activity System

Engagement and Learning in Context

Contradictions, Expansion and Learning

Rolling Role as a System for Creative Learning: A Model for Local and Global Contexts

Features of Learning through Rolling Role

Rolling Role as a New Order of Learning

Appendix A: Rolling Role and the National Curriculum: Videotape Series Overview

Appendix B: Rolling Role Planning

Appendix C: Sample Rolling Role Planning: The Leyford Drama; References

About the Author

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789463004350

9463004351

OCLC:

945662957