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)

Describes a caseplay, which combines case study and role play, about a business merger. Management and finance issues addressed and ways to use it in single and multidisciplinary courses are discussed. (SK)

Presents a classroom activity that will provide students practice in developing the essential skills of developing a profile of the primary audience. Suggests that students should also explore differences in word usage. Concludes that students will better appreciate the significant function of audience in determining the content, tone, and method…

Describes a complex role play used in a high school English class in which students take on roles from a simulated society with three distinct ethnic groups with differing interests and demands. Describes how students learn the hard truths of group dynamics in this extended role-play, discussion, and negotiation. (SR)

Describes a quality management role playing technique designed for use by a virtual or networked organization as a cost-effective tool for staff training. (Contains 21 references.) (SK)

Describes a teacher education strategy that develops experiential learning practices and disciplinary expertise. Presents an introductory example of a situated performance activity and a brief characterization of situated performance. Discusses situated performance as a postmodern rehabilitation of role-play exercises in the context of composition…

Examined young children's metaplay--the process of suspending actual role playing to think or communicate about pretend themes from outside the play frame. Found three categories of metaplay behaviors, including initiations, responses, and constructions. Concluded that a rich array of developmentally useful interactions transpire outside of actual…

Notes that each pupil needs to receive guidance and assistance to achieve as optimally as possible in oral communication. Discusses critical listening to the spoken voice, using puppets, using role play activities, committees in the classroom, giving oral reports, oral reading to classmates, giving and following directions, extemporaneous…

Uses a theatrical approach to implement dramatization into science classrooms. Explains how to use dramatic science in and outside of the classroom with different scenarios. (YDS)

Uses role-playing exercises as a method for teaching introductory astronomy classes to nonscience majors. (CCM)