EXPLORING SKILLS OF FAMILY LIFE AT SCHOOL SOCIODRAMA WITH A FOURTH GRADE GROUP

Abstract

Often in life at school there are opportunities to strengthen family life at home. Many times there are class discussions of family problems common to the entire group, hours for bedtime; use. of the telephone; brother and sister quarrels and the like. If these discussions can be started by setting up a role-playing situation as a means of looking at the situation, it makes it more concrete and meaningful to the child than just a verbal discussion could be; and there is more possibility for carryover in skillful human relations behavior, for role-playing unites the action and verbal levels in a single learning experience. It is this that makes it such an effective educational method