Rolling a Role: Enhancing Critical Thinking and Communication Skills

Abstract

The promotion of critical thinking and communication skills has become more crucial in the present. Enhancing the capabilities of elementary school children, enables them to solve the kinds of complex problems encountered in real life situations. Rolling a role play as an innovative teaching technique can be considered as useful for enhancing critical thinking and communication skills. It provides a platform where students work together in potentially real life situations. The use of role play in teachinglearning situations emphasizes on cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects of children. The aim of the present paper is to probe the usefulness of role play in promoting critical thinking and communication skills amongst elementary school children. Descriptive research design has been taken up wherein the investigators have attempted to study the identification of role play activities and its significance in enhancing critical thinking and communication skills amongst elementary school children. The present paper also probes the level of critical thinking amongst elementary school children.