Reshaping dominant stories : a poststructuralist approach to online role play Dracup, Mary 2010, Reshaping dominant stories : a poststructuralist approach to online role play, in HERDSA 2010 : Proceedings of the 33rd Annual HERDSA Conference, HERDSA, Milperra, N.S.W., pp. 1-10. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads dracup-reshapingdominant-2010.pdf Published version application/pdf 90.08KB 108 Title Reshaping dominant stories : a poststructuralist approach to online role play Author(s) Dracup, Mary orcid.org/0000-0002-5678-4145 Conference name Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Conference (33rd : 2010 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 6-9 Jul. 2010 Title of proceedings HERDSA 2010 : Proceedings of the 33rd Annual HERDSA Conference Editor(s) [unknown] Publication date 2010 Conference series Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Conference Start page 1 End page 10 Publisher HERDSA Place of publication Milperra, N.S.W. Keyword(s) online role play role play poststructuralist drama techniques Summary Online role play is an increasingly popular teaching/learning technique in higher education (Wills & McDougall 2009) but there has been little research into ways a poststructuralist approach may be supported in this format. This paper describes two very different means of incorporating a poststructuralist approach into role plays in higher education to problematise dominant assumptions in the language and content of the subject matter. The first method was a series of interventions in a face-to-face role play in which medical students practised consultations with adolescent school students. The consultations were interrupted repeatedly with activities designed to interrogate assumptions and the school students acted as coaches to improve the medical students' technique. Although this role play was performed face-to-face, some of its activities may be redeveloped to suit an online role-playing format. The second method was a feature of an online role play involving Middle-East politics and journalism students, in which daily online newspapers provided a reflecting and distorting mirror to the political events simulated by the politics students. Indications of ways in which the two methods produced changes in understanding were gathered using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods: questionnaires, focus groups, interviews, participant observation and analysis of online discussions and artefacts. Notes Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 130306 Educational Technology and Computing Socio Economic Objective 930201 Pedagogy HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed ERA Research output type E Conference publication HERDC collection year 2010 Related work DU:30042602 Copyright notice ©2010, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30041204 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Institute of Teaching and Learning Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection   Link to Related Work Reshaping dominant stories : a poststructuralist approach to online role play Conference Paper (deposited 04-01-2012) Online role play stories, engagement and learning in higher education Thesis (deposited 22-02-2012) Role play in blended learning : a case study exploring the impact of story and other elements Journal Article (deposited 14-08-2009) Story as a vehicle for learning in online role play : a case study Conference Paper (deposited 04-01-2012)   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 04 Jan 2012, 12:43:07 EST Wed, 04 Jan 2012, 12:44:41 EST Mon, 09 Jan 2012, 10:40:56 EST Mon, 09 Jan 2012, 10:47:21 EST Mon, 09 Jan 2012, 10:55:09 EST Mon, 09 Jan 2012, 10:56:13 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 19:10:44 EST Thu, 22 Mar 2012, 10:02:40 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 14:22:23 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:27:48 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:40:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 370 Abstract Views, 110 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 04 Jan 2012, 12:43:06 EST by Mary Dracup