Presents a curriculum program designed to dramatize the trial experience. Utilizes the fairytale "Little Red Riding Hood" to present the facts of a criminal case. Outlines the mock trial, rules of evidence, criminal code, and facts of the case. Suggests that classroom experience be enhanced with field trips to a real court. (DK)

Outlines a method of teaching literature in which both students and teachers are asked to enter a fictional world through role playing. Provides a specific example of how the approach might be implemented with a short story. Concludes with reasons why the method is effective. (HB)

Describes group role-playing activities that have been used to teach about education, criminology, and sex roles. Suggests that role play helps students to absorb and retain many of the insights about the issues involved. (DB)

Adult and continuing education tutors (n=50) surveyed favored a range of teaching techniques, including experiential, but some viewed the latter as unsuitable. Role play, simulation, and gaming were not frequently used. Tutors preferred to develop their own methods and materials and believed their students expected traditional methods. (SK)

Describes Life Space Interviewing (LSI) as effective and exciting intervention strategy for use during crisis work with troubled students. Presents teaching LSI from one of Institute of Psychoeducational Training graduates that involves fight between new student and student who is attributed group leader. Following LSI presentation are reactions…

Facilitators can be and often are unaware of damage that may be caused by participation in interactive learning events (simulations, role-plays, games, etc.). This is sometimes due to a confusion about what sort of event is taking place. Two hypothetical situations and one real incident are provided and analyzed. Lessons are drawn and…

Describes a one-semester economics course in which students assume the role of key figures in the development of economic thought, ranging from the mercantilists through the early neoclassicists. Structures class discussion thematically rather than chronologically, so characters are conversationally engaged in each class. (DSK)

Argues that role playing may engage students more effectively than lectures, but the risk of role play is that students often wander from the intended central themes. Presents part of a scripted role play from an environmental-economics course to illustrate how scripting offers a solution to this problem. (DSK)

Describes an experiential group training model designed for prepracticum-level counseling graduate students. Simulated Group Counseling (SCG) offers students an opportunity to experience being group members; facilitating a group; and processing the group with peers, an advanced graduate student observer, and the instructor. SGC reduces…

Discusses general principles relating to the design, use, and assessment of social studies simulations that have been learned through practical experience. Defines, addresses the educational benefits of, outlines steps in creating and managing, and offers suggestions for, evaluating simulations. (DSK)

Examines misconceptions about simulations for performance technology concerning what they reflect, varieties, uses (instruction, awareness, performance assessment, team building, transfer, research, therapy), levels of fidelity, design approaches, formats (graphic models; card, race, and cyclical games; interactive fiction; production simulations;…

Illustrates the use of drama as a form of literary response. Suggests that drama allows students to develop and exhibit a range of skills and to demonstrate their literary understandings in "unschooled" ways. Suggests that Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences demonstrates that students may not be developing understandings because they…

To teach creativity to business students, a framework was used that involves bridging the intuition gap between knowledge/skills and application and providing simulations that enable students to experience chaos and uncertainty. Students enjoyed scenarios but found holistic learning uncomfortable. Peer support through group reflection helped…

Proposes a tool for communicative assessment that addresses the particular goals of the intermediate-level foreign language classroom. The Intermediate Group Role-Play, which induces students to practice the discourse strategies emergent at their level of performance, directs students to set up a "Wohngemeinschaft." The framework for this activity…

Presents an exercise where students explore ethical implications of the employment interview by framing a set of ethical guidelines for a hypothetical hiring case in which they will play one of several roles. Finds that students become keenly aware of the influence of social and professional roles on how people view the ethical issues in the…