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ROLE PLAYING Shaftel, F. R. and Shaftel, G. (1982). Role playing in the curriculum. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc. Shaftel, F. R. and Shaftel, G. (1967). Role -playing for social values: Decision-making in the social studies. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. A great need exists for constructive guidance of groups. They need to be helped to an awareness of the consequences of their codes, their exclusion devices, their demands for blind conformity, their intolerance of deviant behavior. Just as the individual needs to be helped to sensitivity and concern for others, the group needs to be guided to concern for the individual. Ronald Lippitt speaks of the cohesive group -- a group in which the individuals like one another and will support variability among members. Such groups are sensitive to the ways in which their actions may affect others. When people work, live, or play together, there are times when teamwork is necessary and other times when divergence of opinion makes the difference between wisdom and folly. (When a popular leader suggests a rash or inconsiderate act, the member of the group with sounder judgment must feel secure enough to suggest cautioning second thoughts with force and confidence; when the imaginative member of the group suggests a plan involving effort and departure from cherished group plans, the group must feel that he deserves a hearing, however impractical his suggestions seem at first. glance.) Such group attitudes must be systematically cultivated; we cannot depend upon their spontaneous emergence. (1987. PP 21-22) Tasks for Role Playing:
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EdTe 226 |
April, 2001 |