Discusses the impact of role playing on the change of moral judgment maturity in 96 college students. Subjects showed both immediate and delayed increases in moral judgment maturity when role playing a moral dilemma against an opponent who employed reasoning above the subject's initially assessed state. (LLK)

ROLE PLAYING IS AN APPROACH TO GROUP DISCUSSION WHICH ATTEMPTS TO GET MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION THROUGH THE ACTING OUT, BY A FEW MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, OF A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF THE PROBLEM OR IDEA UNDER DISCUSSION. THE GROUP FIRST DECIDES ON A CONCRETE EXAMPLE, FALLING WITHIN THE AREA OF DISCUSSION, AND DECIDES CHARACTER ROLES AND SETTING. NEXT THE…

Describes how a teacher can personally assume a role and thereby facilitate students' role playing. (DD)

Presents a role play, designed for high school students, which provides a framework for the discussion of factors that influence a firm's location. Instructions for the teacher and briefings for the students are provided. Readily adaptable to other students or settings. (JDH)

Describes how a sixth grade class role played famous artists as they staged imaginary scenes from art history. Students researched their chosen artist, wrote scripts, and videotaped their performances. (JDH)

Describes "Mediaville Management Game," a role-playing simulation in which students write and produce spots, buy and sell time and space, and develop management skills. (PD)

Role-playing is a useful technique in the preparation and training of peer counselors and mental health paraprofessionals. Examples of role-playing techniques used in the training of peer counselors in an urban college setting are offered. (Author/CL)

Describes a hands-on project in which anthropology students play the role of professional physical anthropologist in collecting and analyzing data on a small group of contemporary humans. Use of simulated data to represent ancestral populations results in an analysis of microevolution. (KH)

Preliminary indications suggested that a social skills training program featuring modeling, coaching, and role playing was effective in helping 15 autistic adolescents and adults learn to have positive peer-related social experiences. (CL)

Describes the use of dramatization, particularly skits, as a method of workers' education in the Caribbean. A transcript of a skit illustrating occupational safety and health issues is included. (SK)

The author describes her experiences as facilitator of a support group for mainstreamed deaf adolescents. Covering such topics as difficulties communicating with family members and conflicts with hearing peers and teachers, the group featured role playing and discussion. (CL)

Discusses the implications of a new chapter added to the third edition of "Growth through English" concerning the language people use in performing various roles. (RB)

Description of an exercise in which students role play to develop empathy for people with survival problems in poorer nations and to understand the interdependent effects of consumer demand and consumption. (LS)

Compassion, according to Nancy Rue (1991), is not pity. Compassion, Rue asserts, "involves a mixture of feeling one's kinship with others, being purely selfless (at least for the moment) and having the courage to get involved." P. M. Oliner (1983) wrote that "Prosocial content needs to show people behaving in giving and helping ways toward others.…