Role play

Role plays are effective in finding out what young people know and want. You could ask them to role play a typical pupil or role play what sort of HIV/AIDS education they want and have now. Please refer to the suggestions offered in Guidelines for Consultation for more information.
Instructions:
- Organise the pupils in to groups.
- Discuss the theme of the play with the pupils.
- Brainstorm the various roles they might play, and how these roles illustrate the theme of the play.
- Tell the pupils how long they have to create the play, organise themselves and be ready to perform.
- Leave the pupils to come up with the storyline and share out the roles.
- When they are ready (and within the allocated time) the pupils should present the role play to the rest of the class.
- After watching the role play, the class can ask the group questions and this is entry point to a class' discussion.
- You, the teacher, should debrief the role play activity using the debriefing activity below.
Debriefing Activity for the Role Play
- How realistic was this role play?
- What features does this role play highlight?
- Is there anything with which you disagree?
- What has been left out?
See the videos in Section C. 'Pupils' suggestions of the HIV/AIDS education they want to receive'. They are examples of role plays done by the pupils in our study.
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