Manuscript Number : GISRRJ203314

Role Play in Education

Authors(1) :-Dr. Arti Sharma

“The Essence of a Role-playing game is that it is a group.   Cooperative Experience.” The goal of learning design is to help create educational settings and sessions that are learner and activity centered. Role playing is an interesting example of an active learning and teaching strategy. It is a technique that allows students to explore realistic situations by interacting with other people in managed way in ordered to develop experience and trial different strategies in a supported environment. It can incorporate drama, simulations, games and demonstrations of real life cases related to any topic. Role play stimulates children to not only pretend as others they know but also develop social and emotional skills like taking turns, playing cooperatively and express appropriate emotions. This center also enhances physical development of a child in terms of eye-hand coordination while dressing up. So the role is important in the classroom also.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Arti Sharma
Assistant Professor, Education Department, Shri Lal Bhadur Shastri Rastriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, New Delhi, India

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 1 | January-February 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-02-25
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 71-73
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ203314
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

Cite This Article :

Dr. Arti Sharma, "Role Play in Education", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.71-73, January-February.2020
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