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

• Superior document: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• VerfasserIn: Davis, Susan.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Language: English
• Series: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 education...

Table of 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
• Introduction
• Heathcote and Vygotsky
• Vygotskian Concepts Related to Learning and Development
• Vygotsky on Creativity, Imagination and Drama
• ‘CHAT’ as a Frame for Systemic Analysis
• Conclusions
• 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
• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusions
• The Rolling Role Videotapes: Analysis and Synthesis of the Model
• Introduction
• The Rolling Role Video Series
• Rolling Role as an Activity System and Process
• Conclusions
• 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
• Conclusions
• 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
• Conclusions
• 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.