Argues that children will make mistakes in interpreting adult activities in reading biographies, although their role-taking abilities improve as they grow older. Gives suggestions to authors for making biography more comprehensible and useful to the child. Bibliography. (RW)

Defines educational drama as role-taking" which consists of creative work" and coping-work." (Author/SW)

The social skills of 119 learning disabled (LD) high school students was compared to that of 60 nonhandicapped adolescents and 57 court adjudicated juvenile delinquent adolescents, The non-LD youths performed significantly better than the other two groups of youths on seven of the eight skills. (Author/SEW)

Results suggested that LD adolescents do not automatically generalize recently learned social skills to novel role playing situations and the natural environment. Also, high performance in a novel role playing situation does not necessarily mean that a student will show a correspondingly high performance in the natural environment. (Author/SEW)

Discusses advantages of using adventure games in the classroom, reviewing several popular adventures, and comparing (in chart format) 41 currently available programs. Comparison includes system requirement, suggested age, student rating, current price, format (text or text/graphics), fantasy/adventure and historical/scientific qualities, graphics…

Describes use of participant observation in a preschool setting, reporting findings on children's sociodramatic play, roles children assign adults, children's perceptions of teacher-directed organization and activities, children's spontaneous conversations, and individual learning differences and styles. Points out implications of such…

Describes briefly Wayne Brockriede's observations on argumentation in his essay, "Arguers as Lovers," and uses this framework to provide forensic educators with guidance for improving competitive debate. (PD)

Used an attitude survey and a role-playing case to identify the typical approaches people use to implement important changes in organizations. This strategy was not successful in producing change. Using the "Delta Technique," 86 percent of the subjects were successful in introducing change in another 14 role-playing trials. (Author/RC)

Suggests using letter writing, creative writing, a mythology newspaper, and mythology games as four enjoyable ways of teaching mythology. (JL)

Role playing situations in which the tracing of sexual contacts, advising a sexual contact to be examined for a venereal disease, and reducing the risk of contracting a venereal disease raise specific questions which can be answered in class. Three specific situations are provided which demonstrate how best to handle sensitive problems. (JN)

Ascertains the amount of transfer which takes place between on-campus training in teaching models and field application. Three models of teaching were selected--inquiry; role-playing; and synectics. The results illustrated that a preservice social studies program of model-based instruction fosters a decidedly high potential for transferring the…