Role play

IDevice Icon 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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