This study was designed to examine what effect role-play has on self-concept and relations with classmates in the case of elementary school 4th grade students with the purpose of decreasing the problems represented in the form of low self-concept, bui...
This study was designed to examine what effect role-play has on self-concept and relations with classmates in the case of elementary school 4th grade students with the purpose of decreasing the problems represented in the form of low self-concept, building up desirable relations with classmates, and eventually improving self-concept and relations with others by letting them do role-play just as they do other plays.
To achieve those purposes, the following hypotheses to validate the effects of role-play classes based on the theoretical backgrounds of role-play classes, self-concepts, and relation with classmates have been set up.
<Hypothesis 1> The levels of subcategories of self-concept such as physical, social, emotional, and scholastic and total self-concepts of an experimental group will be higher than those of a control group.
<Hypothesis 2> The relations with classmates of an experimental group will be much better than that of a control group.
To validate this study, the class of 4th grade students in C elementary school located in Busan City, which the author is in charge, was selected as an experimental group, while the other class proved to have the homogeneity with the experimental group as a control group.
The test tools used were Jeong, Jong-jin's Self-Concept Diagnostic Test designed for elementary school students (1996), Heo, Seung-hee's Relations with Classmates Diagnostic Test, and Hong, Ok-soon's Relations with Classmates Diagnostic Test. The role-play activities for each term have been selected from Various Activities for Role-play presented by Park, Young-hee (2001) and Oh, Jeong-mee(2000), re-organized as role-plays so that they would be relevant to the purpose of this study, and then distributed to each term properly.
The tests of the subcategories of self-concept such as physical, social, emotional, and scholastic self-concepts, and total self-concepts have all been accepted.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the role-play activities have a good influence on self-concept and relations with classmates of 4th grade students in elementary school.