Art becomes "moving life" as students portray characters in museum works of art. (Editor/SJL)

Clients admitted to an alcohol abuse treatment program volunteered for social skills training related to difficult on-the-job situations. Modeling alone and modeling plus focused instruction were employed to improve several target behaviors. Addition of focused instructions greatly enhanced treatment effects. (Author)

Assessed efficacy of behavior rehearsal procedures in assertion training. Results indicated that nonassertive subjects responded less assertively in behavior role play tests, and reported themselves more anxious than assertive subjects. The role-reversal group was least effective in modifying self-reports of assertion behaviors.…

Discusses the legal rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants. Information is provided on evaluation of rental units, leases, written agreements, deposits, landlord's rights, condominium conversions, eviction, rent increases, and discrimination. Students role-play landlord-tenant negotiations. (AM)

For adolescents, fiction can be an effective source of social information. The material is experienced through subjective involvement in the lives of other people. The student accumulates the historical or background information incidentally from the narrative itself. A variety of teaching methods, including discussion, role playing, and student…

The author suggests using role playing to help students learn to handle awkward interpersonal situations. He gives guidelines for such a classroom role playing session and offers a sampling of interpersonal conflict scenarios. (SJL)

Urges reading teachers to use simulations and provides some examples. (HOD)

Role-playing in nutrition has many advantages as an educational technique, including building thoughts, facilitating flexible thinking, promoting awareness, and providing opportunities for practicing food-related behavior. The Curry and Arnaud model for role play is presented in terms of its components and how each component relates to nutrition…

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…