Role-Playing

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how role-playing activities, a traditional aspect of the way children play, has attracted attention by both educational theorists and markets for children's games. It demonstrates how the use of role-playing as a method of instruction is a crucial element in social studies instruction. It looks at how role-playing provides us with a new approach to teaching that shifts away from the rote memorization that usually serves only to color students ideas about the subject. Role-playing serves to teach students concepts in a way that reflects the way which they already behave and enjoy themselves when they are outside the classroom.

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"One of the most important concepts that teachers must convey to children is that decisions are made at every level by people who base their decisions on the subjective information that they have gained through a combination of analysis and intuition. This is critical in that students must understand that even condemnable actions may be understood if presented in context, albeit without apology. For instance, students might be asked to assume the role of members of the Japanese Diet in 1941 and determine whether or not the bombing of Pearl Harbor is in the best interest of Japan's empire, the "co-prosperity sphere." By doing so, students are able to understand all decisions in a human and social perspective rather than assigning historical protagonists and their foes moral categories."

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