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Stevens, Rachel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Role-play is viewed by scholars as an effective active learning strategy: it encourages participation among passive learners, adds dynamism to the classroom and promotes the retention of material. But what do students think of role-play? This study surveyed 144 students after a role-play activity in a history course and asked them to identify what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Playing, Learner Engagement, Active Learning
Hoover, Elizabeth – 1989
Oral history has not been widely used in required high school history courses. Time, money, transcribing interviews, lack of teaching manuals, and the difficulties in evaluating students were cited as problems associated with using oral history as an instructional tool. Yet oral history projects do not have to be major productions to be…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Ethnic Groups, Field Studies, High Schools