ROLE-PLAYING AS AN AID IN IMPROVING READING ABILITY AND EMPATHY
Keywords:
ROLE PLAYINGAbstract
Our educational system concentrates on preparing the human organism to take his role in life at every stage of development from child to patriarch. Inculcated with thoroughness are details of decorum, of proper conduct, of responsibility, and even of rewards to be reasonably expected. Throughout, the stress is on "Thus you must do." Too often, as delinquency and other statistics of deviance indicate, thus the you does not do; or does only superficially, with a minimum of attainment and satisfaction, with no enrichment of the personality, with no creative self-expression. There is only infrequently awareness of a deeper self to express; where there may be such an awareness, its spontaneous freedom is checked by all the warning signs: "This is not done." Mass constraint stifles originality and checks the organism from developing as an individual. One proceeds conventionally in a prescriptive routine, taking the role defined as his by society, and wonders at the shallowness of his life and the frequent psychic contusions resulting from oblique collision with others similarly oriented.
References
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, English-Speech Language Arts for Senior High Schools, Curriculum Bulletin 1955-56, Series 12. - - - - , The Retarded Reader in the Junior High School, New York: Board of Education Bureau of Curriculum Research, September, 1952, Publication 31.
COOKE, D. E., Chairman, The Road to Better Reading: Promising Practices in Reading for a k-12 Program Based on the Summary of Conference-Clinics for the Readjustment of High School Education. Albany, State Education Department, 1953.
DOLCH, E. E., Methods in Reading, Champaign, Illinois: Garrard, 1955.
FORLANO, GEORGE, "Measuring the Effectiveness of Special Reading Instruction in Selected Vocational High Schools," Bureau of Educational Research, Board of Education, New York: February, 1954. P.N. 22-172.
HARRIS, A. J., How to Increase Reading Ability, New York, Longmans, Green, 1947.
HEIMBACH, S. R., "Empathy and Reading Ability: An Exploratory Study of Their Possible Correlation and Improvement," Doctoral Dissertation, New York University, 1958. Library of Congress, Mic 58-2484.
MORENO, J. L, "Comment on Walter Coutu's 'Role-Playing vs. Role-Taking"," ASR, XVI, No. 4 (August, 1951), pp. 550-551. , Psychodrama, First Volume. Beacon House, New York, 1946, pp. 151-160. , h o Shall Survive, Beacon House, New York, 1953, pp. 39-47; 75-89; 688-691.
NELSON, M. J., Nelson Silent Reading Test, Vocabulary and Paragraph, Forms A, B, and C. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.
NELSON, M. J., AND DENNY, E. C., Nelson-Denny Reading Test for Colleges and Senior High Schools, Vocabulary and Paragraph, Forms A and B, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.
Practical English: A National Magazine for English and the Communication Arts Designed for High School Students in General, Business and Vocational Courses. New York: Scholastic Publications, 1953, 1954, 15, 16. Entire Series.
The Reading Teacher: The Journal of the International Council for the Improvement of Reading Instruction, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh. Selected articles.
SULLIVAN, E. T., CLARK, W. W., AND TICS, E. W., California Short-Form Test of Mental Maturity. Intermediate 1950 S-Form. California Test Bureau, Los Angeles, California, 1950.
THOMPSON, D. W., "Interpretative Reading As Symbolic Action," Quarterly Journal, of Speech, 1956, 42, 389-397.
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.