The entries in this bibliography were selected from items included in the Educational Resources Information Center indexes, RESOURCES IN EDUCATION and CURRENT INDEX TO JOURNALS IN EDUCATION. A list of 70 subject area categories is included to facilitate identification of items for specific topics. (JD)

Classroom experience for social studies students in simulation, role-playing, and sociodrama provides not only an interesting way of learning, but also an appreciation for the complexity and interdependence of social systems in the modern world. Role-playing requires a student to assume an identity other than his own to increase his understanding…

This booklet on the educational techniques of role playing describes a method designed to help children become decision-makers by providing a life-related way to help them learn to solve problems between people. Part 1 describes the role-playing method in which children act out the ending of an unfinished "problem story" which stops with…

This document presents a three-step model for providing teachers with basic information on year-round or extended school plans. As a first step, descriptions of basic plans are given. The four used in this paper are Staggered Quarter for All, Full 48-week School Year for All, Voluntary Summer Program, and A Summer Program for Professional…

This document, one of four concerned with the training of paraprofessional school personnel, provides 15 situations of varying complexity which may be role-played. A presentation of the role-play dramatization is made for the general group of trainees, who then react to the situation by providing written responses on specially designed sheets.…

Realism for management instruction can be achieved through the use of role playing. Guidelines for formulating role playing situations and a case study in which role playing techniques can be employed are presented. (Author/BP)

Describes a role playing method for teaching students to separate rumors from facts. (RB)

For an end-of-the-school-year treat, students brought in gifts for their favorite characters from novels they had read during the year. Suggested lists of characters and books, and ways to organize and run the party, are provided. (JL)

Describes a role-playing activity designed to show how the United States began its involvement in Vietnam. Provides sample handouts assigning students to support either the French or Vietnamese side of a debate. The teacher assumes the role of President Truman who must decide which side will receive U.S. support. (GEA)

Sixty children were exposed to moral arguments one or two stages above their dominant moral development stage as assessed on Kohlberg's scales. Results indicated overall change in moral concepts and attitudes, with role play procedures being no more effective than passive listening in producing change. (Author/SB)

This article proposes simulation as a method of training teachers to become managers of behavior. (JA)

Results provide additional support for the idea that the psychotherapy process can be facilitated by structuring of the interview situation for the client. (Author)

Describes a high school project of launching a presidential campaign that duplicated the actual one every step of the way, with much of the emotional content of the real thing. (GB)