Browsing by Author "Malmgren, Mikko"

Every school has an obligation to organize a one multidisciplinary module per school year. Same time local schools have a lot of choices how to organize this multidisciplinary module. Need for this study was born when I had to plan multidisciplinary module for our school with my colleagues. I wanted to use role-gaming as a teaching method in this multidisciplinary module, but I didn’t have enough knowledge how use this method and I couldn’t convince other teachers. I decided to study role-gaming as a teaching method. I wanted to study role-gaming and how to use it in theory as an teaching method In this research curriculum and role-gamin theory are compered to find common goals. In this research I study role-gaming, its theory, concept and history. Using it as a teaching method is main focus. There is lot of similarity in many curriculum goals and role-gaming benefits. Research shows that role-gaming is effective for teaching social skills. Benefit for using role-gaming as teaching method is supporting experimental and phenomenon based learning. Down side for using role-gaming is that it requires a lot of work. And there is a lack of scientific research of role-gaming as a teaching method and education for teachers how to use it.