- Title
- Role-playing, politics, citizenship and dressing up: year 10's re-creations in the 1972 'It's Time' election
- Creator
- Donnelly, Debra
- Relation
- Making a Difference: Multidimensional Citizenship Education in a Changing World: Social Educators Association of Australia Biennial Conference 2008. SEAA Conference Proceedings (Newcastle, N.S.W. 20-22 January, 2008)
- Relation
- http://www.seaa.org.au/newcastle08.html
- Publisher
- Social Educators Association of Australia
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This paper examines a four-week simulation that has evolved for a decade in the History Faculty at Warners Bay High School in N.S.W. The simulation focuses on exploring the world of the 1972 “It’s Time” Election in a local context and features the role-playing of various election events, culminating in all of Year 10 becoming enfranchised 1970’s voters and deciding if it “was time.” This annual learning event has been embraced by the school community and has become an institutional rite of passage for Year 10. The paper reports on youth disengagement with politics and the functions of their own democracy, and examines how civics and citizenship education is addressed in N.S.W. Years 7-10 History Syllabus. The simulation is one school’s response to the challenge of disengagement and is a demonstration of what can be accomplished with multi-relational teamwork and purposeful “chaos.” The unit is examined in terms of its organization, sequencing and strategies and analysed as an example of transformational education flourishing in the constraints of a traditional school environment. The paper proposes this Warners Bay High civics and citizenship simulation as a model of best practice and as evidence of the effectiveness of simulation and roleplay in civics, citizenship and electoral education.
- Subject
- voters; politics; democracy; teamwork
- Identifier
- uon:5997
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/45063
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646480619
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