ROLE PLAYING IN EDUCATION-SOME PROBLEMS IN ITS USE*
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Although a considerable literature is now available on role playing in education, relatively little seems to have been written concerning the problems which may be, encountered in its use in education. The need for more deliberate attention to the problems which might beset the educational use of role playing is pointed up by the rapidity with which the use of role playing is being extended both in the training of educators and in the programs of educators. Nevertheless, informal inquiries among educators-in both formal and
informal educational settings-suggest that the training received is rarely systematic and rarely calls attention to psychological and sociological problems which may arise in connection with its use.
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1 Howard Lane and Mary Beauchamp, Human Relations in Teaching. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1955, p. 274.
2 Loc. cit.
8 Rosemary Lippitt and Anne Hubbell, "Role Playing for PersonneI and Guidance Workers: Review of the Literature with Suggestions for Application". Group Psychotherapy, 9: 89, August, 1956.
4 Grace Levit and Helen H. Jennings, "Leaming Through Role Playing", in How To Use Role Playing and Oker Tools for Learning, Leadership Pamphlet No. 6., Ch. cago: Adult Education Association of the U. S. A., 1956, pp. S-10. Ibid., p. 5.
6 Ibid., pp. 5-6.
7 J. L. Moreno, Psychodrama (New York: Beacon House, 1946), Vol. 1, 352.
s Footnote, loc. cit.
9 Loe. cit.
10 A graduate student in one of the writer's courses at another Connecticut university several years ago.
11 A graduate student in the writer's group at a Family Life Institute at one of the New York State teachers' colleges, in the summer of 1954.
12 Bobker Ben Ali, "An Experiment with a Frustrated Group," Group Psychotherapy, 11: 153-58, June, 1958.
13 Far concise accounts of some other dangers or pitfalls in the use of role playing see Alan F. Klein, Role Playing in Leadership Training and Group Problem Solving (New York: Association Press, 1956), Chapter 8; Chris Argytis, Role Playing in Action. Bulletin No. 16 (Ithaca, New York: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, May, 1951), Chapter 2; Bruce F. Young and Morris Rosenberg, "Role Playing as a Participation Technique", Journal of Social Issues, 5 (No. 1): 42-45, Winter, 1949.
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