ROLE PLAYING AND ACTION METHODS IN THE CLASSROOM
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The "acting out" of ideas and social situations has historically been an important way for people to understand and cope with themselves and their environments. In his Poetics, Aristotle suggested that drama can have a therapeutic effect on the audience by cleansing them through arousal of the emotions of fear and pity. Historians and anthropologists report primitive tribes who rehearse for battle through dances which incorporate the actions that will be used in war, and cite other tribes who enact events as a means of
reporting and explaining them to others in the group.
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