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’.
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Revitalising Heathcote’s Rolling Role for the Digital Age
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789463004350
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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