This paper focuses on the simulation games developed at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., which deal with a variety of social processes or situations. The paper, given before game play, identifies some of their characteristic features and discusses the educational implementational implications of the ways in which they are seen to…

Reports on results of a simulated job experience exercise given to several thousand elementary school principals at a 1970 NAESP annual meeting. The results are presented and compared by sex, geographic region, school size, and city size. (DN)

Purpose of this study was to determine whether some major aspects of children's role-playing behavior can be coded reliably and whether role-playing behavior is related to role-problem characteristics and individual variables. (Authors)

The author visited moral education programs in four countries and describes here one in Milan, the Centro Coscienza, which uses an aesthetic rather than a rational or psychological approach. (JB)

The concept of energy consumption can be learned by role playing, using jelly beans as units of energy with children as primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. Follow-up questions are suggested for further discussion. (PS)

Defines the three terms and suggests ways to change interruptions to more positive speech patterns. (SP)

The GUICO (guidance and counseling) approach synthesizes various elements of group guidance and group counseling in order to achieve developmental social and remedial problem solving goals in group settings. Counselors share responsibility for group leadership, provide structure for group events; and act as models in role playing situations. Group…

Describes an activity in which students selected a character from a play or novel and acted that role before the class. (SW)

Seven situations are suggested for role playing exercises, with facial and physical movement emphasized as well as oral skill development. Possibilities for improvisation, props, variations, and linguistic objectives are outlined for each situation. (MSE)