Overview
Fills a significant hole in the literature on educational role-play, enabling future growth in the field to be more confident and proficient
Provides the first comprehensive performance theory to explain how role-play works as performance
Offers practical ideas on incorporating role-play into communication training across many diverse fields
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Practice
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Role-play
- Healthcare education
- Simulated Practice in Healthcare
- Human Patient Simulation
- Clinical Skills
- Simulation Applied to Medicine
- Drama and medicine
- performance theory and practice
- educational role-play
- theatre and communication
- aesthetic distance
- The Centipede’s Dilemma
- Split Focus
- The Creep Principle
About this book
This book harnesses the theory and practice of dramatic arts for the applied use in communication education. It introduces readers to educational role-play and how to use it, arguing that complete immersion is crucial to successful learning. Educational role-play sprang into life in many places including the medical world in the 1960s. Now, fifty years later, the field has grown exponentially across the world. Heinrich discusses how through role play interactions become more authentic, discussion becomes more focused and people take risks, and grow. Early chapters in Part I focus on theory, show how and why role-play works, and introduce the key performative factors of aesthetic distance, defamiliarization, framing, and focus that produce its dynamism. Chapters in Part II discuss how these ideas inform every aspect of role-play practice, offer practical guidance on designing and running scenarios, how to be more confident and mindful as player or facilitator, and provide a wide array of techniques to handle challenging situations. Most of the examples are drawn from medical communication, but the insights and techniques are equally applicable to other fields such as business, law, policing, and the military. The book will be of interest to educators, workplace trainers and managers, facilitators, role-play actors, and scholars interested in role-play performance.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Paul Heinrich holds a PhD in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University, USA and is the Founding Creative Director (retired) of Pam McLean Centre, University of Sydney, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: When role-play comes alive
Book Subtitle: A Theory and Practice
Authors: Paul Heinrich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5969-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5968-1Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5537-0Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5969-8Published: 18 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 307
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Sociology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Theatre and Performance Studies, Communication Studies, Development Communication