Biography and Role Playing: Fostering Empathy in Abnormal Psychology

Poorman, Paula B.

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“…In related work, researchers explore the implications for empathic development beyond role-playing exercises (Goldstein & Winner, 2012;Poorman, 2002). According to Goldstein and Winner, "Role-playing beyond early childhood may be a route by which humans come to develop enhanced empathy and gain greater insight into others' beliefs and emotions."…”

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Empathy as a Tool for Embodiment Processes in Vocal Performance

Heisel¹

2015

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One way of understanding empathy in music performance is as a process by which singers closely identify with the characters they encounter and portray in opera or art song. As singers embody these characters, they literally give them voice. Music performance humanizes characters as well as performers and audiences through shared empathetic engagement, resulting in the development of knowledge and understanding within and beyond the immediate musical experience. What is the process a singer goes through in empathizing with a character? How can young classical or musical theatre singers learn to empathize with the characters they are tasked with portraying, even when they may find the characters or their behavior to fall outside of their own moral convictions? This paper posits that empathy is a necessary part of the role preparation process for singers and introduces the "role journal" as a way for young singers to track embodiment processes and develop healthy habits of empathy and boundaries in their work.Submitted 2014 March 28; accepted 2015 April 8. KEYWORDS: empathy, vocal performance, singing, vocal pedagogy, opera, musicAS empathy becomes a more popular subset of the fields of music psychology and music performance philosophy, it is important to remember that live music is an immediate, visceral experience for performers and audiences. The music performance experience functions as a multi-faceted vortex of communication passing not only between performers, between audience members, and between collective and individual subsets of performers and audience members, but also between the characters realized through the performance, whether embodied by the performers or not (orchestral tone poems, for example, may create a character without actual embodiment), and finally creating links across time as performers and audience members engage, in a sense, with a composer. Within the multiplicity of communication processes in performance situations, perhaps the most significant are the most intimate. I suggest that the most intimate experience of empathy in music is between a singer and the character he or she portrays. The singer who embodies and realizes a character engages in a process of intimate and meaningful empathy with the character throughout preparation and performance processes. By extension, audience members may feel an empathic connection to characters they see on the stage, both through the performer's portrayal as well as through the music experience. For these reasons, I contend that conceptual theories of empathy in music can benefit from including practical applications for artists. Mindful recognition and development of empathy in music, especially in vocal performance, can enhance the experiences of performers and their audiences.According to music education philosopher David Elliott, "the concept of music as knowledge is rich with possibilities" (Elliot, 1991, p. 21). As an extension of this notion, I posit that the creation and development of knowledge in and through music is relate...

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Empathy as a Tool for Embodiment Processes in Vocal Performance

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2015

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“…Fogg (2001) reported that learning through play raises learner interest in the topic. According to Poorman (2002), "integrating experiential learning activities in the classroom increased interest in the subject matter and understanding of course content" (p. 32). Learning through play provides the learners with the opportunity to construct knowledge in an interactive and participatory manner.…”

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In Search of a Working Strategy: The AHA... Moment in the Teaching of Science Subjects at Two South African High Schools

Samuel

Dudu

2018

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The purpose of this study is to interrogate a 'working' strategy established to improve and sustain learner performance by two Life Sciences and two Physical Sciences teachers of two best-performing high schools in the North West province of South Africa. The schools in this study have had a pass rate of over 90% for seven consecutive years in Physical and Life Sciences. Ausubel's (1963) constructs of Meaningful Reception Learning theory provided the conceptual framework for this study. The study was purely qualitative, employing an exploratory case-study approach. Purposive sampling was adopted to identify participants and research sites for the study. Data was generated through interviews, classroom observations and document analysis. The data were thematically analysed using open coding, axial coding and selective coding.Results of the study demonstrate that the aha! moment originated from the use of role-playing as a teaching strategy. Recommendations for policy and further research are suggested.

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“…[6]Introductory Drilling: as the construction of scenario is finished, some of the students are being choosen or voluntarily propose himself to take the role based on the set scenario. After that, each student will start to drill themselves under the lecturer supervisions and guidance.…”

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“…In a student centred model, students are guided to actively build their own scientific ideas to build their cognitive competence. [6] mentioned that according to the recent research finding, a role play strategy can enhance student interest to a subject and materials. So then it can also positively influence students understanding upon the concepts.…”

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The Effect of Using Role Playing Strategy to the Students of Science Education

Wulandari¹

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intellectuals' Global Responsibility (ICIGR 2017)

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Abstract-This study aims to find out the influence of using role playing as the learning strategies for science education student in understanding scientific concept. This research is a quantitative descriptive research by using one group pretest and posttes research design. The data collection technique used in this research is saturated sampling The instrument used in this research is a written test upon student's cognitive learning outcomes. This test is used to expose student's ability to understand the concept of cell division material before and after the treatment performed. The analysis used in this research is descriptive quantitative by comparing before and after condition as the role playing is performed. The results of this research indicates that there is positive influence of role playing strategies. This is because the students are able to feel and actively experience as part of the learning process in mitosis and miosis stages. So, they become more familiar with the role they play and it makes them more anthusiastic to the material that they have to understand.

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Biography and Role Playing: Fostering Empathy in Abnormal Psychology

Cited by 78 publications

References 24 publications

Empathy as a Tool for Embodiment Processes in Vocal Performance

Empathy as a Tool for Embodiment Processes in Vocal Performance

In Search of a Working Strategy: The AHA... Moment in the Teaching of Science Subjects at Two South African High Schools

The Effect of Using Role Playing Strategy to the Students of Science Education

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