Role-playing as a way of learning
Role-playing as a way of learning
Role-playing as a way of learning
In this modern society everything goes forward and it's the same in the field of education. Experts are trying to find new and effective methods of learning, attempting to make easier the process of understanding, memorizing and, of course, the use of the acquirement. Research shows that information, pure and alone, rarely makes people change their minds, but personal experience often does. Role playing is one of the modern teaching methods that has given really good results in praxis. The point of role playing, as a type of inquiry approach, is that it transforms the content of education from information into experience (maybe here is the reason why people love to play rpg games). Here are few facts that explain why this type of learning and teaching is so effective.
Motivates the students
- The exercise has its creative aspect that makes it seem more like play than like work
- The pressure to solve a problem or to resolve a conflict is far more typical of the pressure that will be on them in real life. This motivates them much more than classical way of preparing for exam and the pressure that goes with it
- These exercises are also useful in courses for non-majors because emphasize the intersection between science and daily life
Augments traditional curricula
- The main purpose of doing these role-playing exercises is to get students to look at the material in a new light. With a help of the instructor they alter their mental maps of the world instead of just filling them in
- They show that the complicated problems in the world, as a really complex place, can't be solved by a simple answer that the student has previously memorized
- Skills they learn separately (such as quantitative and communications skills) are often used together, in order to accomplish many real-world tasks
- Many students have science and math anxiety. Adding a sympathetic, human element to science is very encouraging for this students, it emphasize the value of feelings and of creativity as well as of knowledge
- These exercises show that people and their viewpoints are important, what is very important in many professions, including business, academia, and politics.
Getting real world skills
- Understanding of the needs and perspectives of other people makes people (students) understand better themselves
- It's useful for developing skills that are important inside the scene but also outside, and are very difficult to teach and learn using more traditional methods, for example self-awareness, problem solving, communication, initiative, teamwork
- Knowledge acquired with research or with problem solving retains more than the handed knowledge in lecture
- Gives image for ethics
- Some analysis show that students that have been using role playing had an easier time finding jobs after completing this kind of curriculum than they did after the traditional curriculum.
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