3. DEFINITION
OF ROLE
PLAY:
“Role playing is relatively new
educational techniques in which
people spontaneously act out
problems of human relations and
analyze the enactment with the help
of other role players & observers.”
TERM COINED BY JACOB L. MORENS
IN 1920
4. PURPOSES
OF ROLE-
PLAY
To convey information.
To develop specific skills.
To develop a situation for analysis.
To prevent alternative courses of action.
To prepare for meeting future situations.
To develop understanding of points of view of others.
Increasing their insight into typical ways of dealing with
them.
To provide emotional and affective stimulus for solving
problems.
To provide awareness about social and psychological
issue.
5. PRINCIPLES
OF ROLE-
PLAY
Role playing is flexible.
The role play should be a stimulant to think &
not an escape from the discipline of learning.
There is no single best method of selecting the
characters the group may do the assigning.
Role play should be rehearsed.
Analysis and evaluation is essential to attain
the maximum learning benefits.
Role play should be brief.
6. SETTING
UP OF
ROLE-
PLAYING
• Define the problem to be considered and the nursing
situation in nursing situation in a meaningful manner to all
students in the situation & ask for volunteers 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 & opinions.
• Each class member selects one role & identifies herself with
it, listens & tries to anticipate what the persons in the
situation might say or do.
• Rehearse for role playing.
• At any point during a dream utilization participants may
hold a short conference to clarify the problem under study..
• The length of the role play will depend upon how long it
takes to make the nursing situation clear and the students
become aware of feelings & thoughts of these in the actual
situation.
• At the end of the activity time should be given for a
discussion.
7. ROLE OF
A
TEACHER
IN ROLE
PLAYING:
• 1. This provides the teacher with
the opportunity to note individual
student needs by observing &
analyse her needs in a real life
situation.
• 2. Assist the student in meeting her
own needs by either giving her or
encouraging group members to give
her on the spot suggestions.
• 3. Encourage independent thinking
& action by stepping aside on giving
indirect guidance to emphasize
them to themselves.
8. VALUES
OF ROLE-
PLAYING:
• Develop skill in
leadership, interviewing &
social interaction.
• Develop sensitivity to others
feelings.
• Develop skills in group
problem solving.
• Develop ability to observe &
analyze situation.
• Practice selected behaviors in
real-like situation without the
stress of making a mistake.
10. 1. SOCIODRAMA :- It deals with the interactions of
people with other individuals or groups e.g. mother,
nurse, leader etc. it always involves situations of
more than one person and deals with problems that
a majority of the group face in executing their roles.
2. PSYCHODRAMA :- Practiced in group setting,
mainly concerned with the unique needs and
problems of a particular individual. It should not be
attempted except under guidance of a trained
therapist
11. POINTS TO
REMEMBER
WHILE DOING
ROLEPLAYING:
There should never be 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 the
participants through
discussion or follow-up as to specific
individual behavior or sequential of group-
actions.
12. STEPS IN
ROLE-
PLAYING::
There are 10 stage –
1. Select a problem for role-playing.
2. Set-up the role playing scene.
3. Getting under way in role-playing
. 4. The part the group plays.
5. Cutting the role-playing.
6. After the role-playing is cut.
7. The audience observers
8. The role playing scene might be played.
9. Cautions in the use of role playing.
10. Summarize.
13. ADVANTAGES
OF ROLE-
PLAYING:
• It provides opportunities to the
students to learn about a subject
from the inside.
• It gives them to feel the intensity of
the situation by enacting it through
role-playing.
• It increases student’s interest,
motivations & effects for learning
about a subject or phenomenon.
Students derive useful real life like
experience through playing specific
roles of the players or observers & in
turn prepare them for their future life
activities.
• It provides training in verbal & motor
communication of the behavioral acts
by expressing as spontaneously and
freely as possible.
• The students get opportunity to
imbibe useful qualities for social
participation & cooperation by giving
due regard to others feelings & points
of view.
14. • It can provide due insight
into real life problems &
develop problem-solving
abilities of the students.
• It can be used for
illustrating & explaining
the various phenomena
& incidents related to
classroom teaching of
various subjects
15. DISADVANTAGES
OF ROLE-PLAYING:
• The students may not understand the problems
or the situation for playing the roles with needed
effectiveness.
• The Role playing becomes effective only when the
player & observers truly believe in the story or
the situation to be enacted.
• Usually the students do not believe in what they
are doing with their roles as players or observers.
• In such situation, role-playing loses its impact &
significance.
• Students, who may enact the assigned roles
effectively, are not easily available for making the
role play success.
• The Role-playing expects too much from the
teacher as he in one who have to create a life like
problematic situation or story plot, prepare and
draft the role player’s watch & direct the role-
playing activities for some useful educative gains.
• There is quite dearth of such capable & trained
teachers and in such a situation we cannot expect
desired results with the use of role-playin
