Role-play in Literature Lectures

• Main Authors: Ní Riain, Isobel, Dawson, Ciarán, McCarthy, Marian
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: University College Cork 2017-01-01
• Series: SCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research
• Online Access: https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-11-1-8

The following article draws on research that I carried out as part of a master’s degree in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in University College Cork (UCC) between 2015-2016. I teach Irish language and literature in the Modern Irish Dept. of UCC. The intervention I used with my students was role-play which is not generally used in the teaching of Irish Literature. My research was an investigation into the learning students associate with the use of role-play in literature lectures. The findings show that while students reported learning many different things from role-play, there was no consensus as to what one could learn from the use of role-play in literature lectures. I am encouraged by the findings and will continue to use role-play in the future.1