ROLE PLAYING AS A METHOD OF ACADEMIC EDUCATION

Abstract

For quite a number of semesters I have been employing, in the framework of a seminar held with the sociologic division of Cologne Research Institute, what we have been calling "role playing," as suggested by J. L. Moreno. The more presumptuous designation "Sociodrama" we have dropped. The stimulation to these experiments we owe to Moreno's valuable and comprehensive innovations, of which we have already repeatedly reported. He has, since, developed his psychodrama and sociodrama into the "Theater of Spontaneity," together with his associates.