This document discusses role play as an educational technique for teaching and learning. Role play involves learners spontaneously acting out problems or situations and analyzing their enactment. It has several purposes, including conveying information, developing skills, and increasing understanding of other perspectives. The key steps in role play are selecting roles, setting the scene, enactment, discussion and evaluation. Role play helps students develop communication skills, sensitivity, group problem solving abilities, and ability to observe situations. The teacher guides role play without direct instruction and uses it to provide specific teaching and correct errors.

2. ROLE PLAY
PREPARED BY
Anshu
M.Sc. Nursing
KGMU College of Nursing

3. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember I do
and I understand.”
Confucius

4. Introduction
Every teacher devises his or her good effective method
for teaching. The teacher in her method should appeal
through sense perception to the understanding of the
student. One of the methods used in teaching learning is
“role play”.

6. Definitions
Role playing is an educational technique in which
people spontaneously act out problems of human
relation and analyze the enactment with the help of the
other players and observers.

7. Conti….
 Role play is a method by which learners participate in
an unrehearsed dramatization, acting out an assigned
part of a character as they think the character would
act in reality.
Bastable, S. B. (2008). Nurse as Educator (3rd Ed.). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

8. Purposes of Role Play
To convey information.
To develop specific skills.
To develop a situation for analysis.
To develop understanding of points of view of others.
To increase insight into typical way of dealing with a
problem.
Provides an opportunity for social interaction among
members.

9. Values of Role Playing
 There is emotional involvement as the actors try to feel the
character he/she is portraying and puts himself in that person’s
character.
 It is enjoying by people who do it.
 It is a method to involve a group through participation.
 It can bring out data human behaviour and human relations
which are not made available by other methods.

10. Conti..

11. Principles of Role Playing
Role playing is flexible.
The role play should be stimulant to think and not
escape from the discipline of learning.
There is no single best method of selecting the
characters, the group may do the assigning.
Analysis and evaluation is essential to attain the
maximum learning benefits.
Role play should be brief.

12. Setting up of Role Playing
 Define the problem to be considered and the nursing situation in
a meaning full manner to all student in the class.
 Identify the characters in the situation and ask for valounters to
play these roles.
 Ask the participants to try to place themselves in the position of
the characters.
 Caution the participants against the desire to express their own
ideas and options.
 Each class member select some role and identifies herself with
it, listen and try to anticipate what the person in the situation
might say or do,

13. Conti…..
At any point during a dramatization participants may
holed a short conference to clarify the problem
understudy.
The length of role play will depend upon how long it
take to make the nursing situation clear and the student
become aware of feelings and thoughts of these in the
actual situations.
 At the end of the activity time should be given for a
discussion.

14. Phases or steps involves in Role Play
 Warming up the group
 Selecting participants
 Set the stage
 Preparation of observers
 Enactment
 Discussion and evaluation
 Re-enactment
 Re-discussion and Evaluation
 Deriving Generalizations

16. Effect of Role Play
Role Playing helps the student to :-
 Develop real communication skills in leadership, interviewing and social
interacting. E.g. how to lead a communication etc.
 Develop sensitivity to another’s feelings by having the opportunity to put
oneself in another’s place and develop emapthy and understanding.
 Develop skill in group problems solving. E.g. the group works as a whole
to develop the problem of concern to the group. To develop the situation ,
to identify issues and to come to some mutual agreement.
 Develop ability to observe and analyze situations.
 Practice selected behaviours in a real life situation without the stress of
making a mistake

17. Conti…
Role of a teacher in Role Play of Teaching
This provides the teachers with the opportunity to note
individual student by observing and analysing her needs
in a real life situation.
Encourage independent thinking and action by stepping
a side on giving indirect guidance to emphasize them to
themselves.
The teacher can correct the errors and use the role play
for specific teaching on the subject.

18. Points to be remember while doing Role
Playing
There should never one answer to a situation presented.
The time of the play should be brief.
Enough time should be allowed for discussion and
analysis of the situation.
Evaluation concerns the teacher and participants
through discussion or follow-up as to specific individual
behaviour or group action.

19. Advantages of Role Play

20. DISADVANTAGES
The teacher can direct/limit the learner
Maybe inaccurate due to real life experiences.
Group size is normally limited.
High expectations
Peer performance anxiety

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