A regression equation indicated that five variables predicted 36 percent of the variance of the role taking scores. These predictor variables were the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) Vocabulary score, Matching Familiar Figures errors, sex, neighborhood, and lateral dominance. (Author/DLS)

Discusses young children's conceptions of status and role based on sociolinguistic analyses of spontaneous role play. Links developmental features of social knowledge to contextual features of children's interactive experiences. (Author/CK)

Examines learning points, the functions they serve in manager-employee discussion, how they are developed, and how to teach people to observe them, both in watching models and their own behavior. (Author/RK)

Defines the concepts of simulation and creative drama within educational contexts and outlines six basic elements common to both concepts. Available from: Children's Theatre Review, American Theatre Association, 1029 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Suite 402, Washington, D.C. 20005. (MH)

Examined classroom discourse at a southern cosmetology school, noting African American students' language socialization. Highlighted freshmen's and seniors' engagement with formal/textbook scripts about proper communication, analyzing how teachers and students made sense of official metacommunicative scripts about proper salon communication.…

Notes that media shapes the way young people contextualize their world. Suggests that process drama could be a pedagogical forum where theater practitioners and young people could use dramatic tools to explore the form and content of the omnipresent media in its historical, social, political, and personal contexts. Provides examples of what this…

Role playing of basic negotiation styles forms the basis of the A-E-I-O-U curriculum (attack, evade, inform, open, unite). Techniques such as position/need analysis, problem solving, and conflict resolution can be applied beyond the classroom to work and personal situations. (SK)

The article reports on two effective peer intervention strategies for handicapped children with social deficits. In the first, nonhandicapped children are taught to use interaction promoting strategies and in the second, handicapped and nonhandicapped children are taught sociodramatic play scripts which encourage interaction during free play.(DB)

As a dramatic arts professor's experience shows, children's lack of arts education inhibits their ability to communicate ideas spontaneously, respond with feeling, and discern quality from commercial junk. By contrast, a role-playing/research activity with 15 youngsters helped students express themselves creatively and build community in a…

Two studies used a job interview role-play situation to examine strategies that interviewers employed when asking personal as compared to neutral questions. They found that personal questions were asked later in the interview than neutral questions and that more hesitation markers, tag questions, and hedges were used with personal questions than…

Discusses the development of a book about Dorothy Heathcote's dramatic approach to education. Describes a lesson on "bullying" that illustrates an attempt to implement Heathcote's "Mantle of the Expert" method. (RS)

Creative dramatics is advocated as a moral education strategy. Studies examining role playing as an intervention strategy are reviewed. Kohlberg's moral education theory and criticisms of it are discussed. A dramatic example is shared, and steps for implementation are outlined. (Author)

Presents a lesson designed for secondary economics classes. Students role play adults in selected occupations, create personal budgets, and make investment and savings decisions. Student directions and questions are included. (CFR)

An adaptation of family sculpting can be used as a supervision intervention with family therapists in training who are struggling with families and/or family members with whom they feel stuck or frustrated. Article presents how to conduct the family sculpting method of group supervision. (Author)