(1109)ROLE-PLAYING AS AN ACTIVE METHODOLOGY TO LEARN MOREABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

摘要

Nowadays students have a lot of information available in libraries, internet, etc. For this reasonteaching process must insist not only in transmitting contents to the students but also in creating anatural critical environment. To this aim the application of group techniques can help students toparticipate freely and actively and, among other aspects, to gather a range of ideas, opinions, andconcerns. Role-Playing is a group technique in which the students have to develop a role from somebasic guidelines. It is very useful in critical learning because independently of their individual opinionthey have to develop the assigned role and to defend it.When teaching environmental management there are many points of view about some aspects andthus it is important for the students to get closer to these different realities. For instance, in Spain thereis a debate about the implementation of deposit-return system for one-way packaging and refillablebottles to manage the packaging waste. In the Role-Playing carried out in the course “Impact of theAgro-industrial Techniques” the students had to simulate a TV program in which the advantages anddisadvantages of deposit-return systems were debated. Five roles were assigned and the rest of thestudents had to follow the debate and to fill a survey in which they evaluated the five actors taking intoaccount formal and content aspects. The debate was filmed and commented in the next class. As aconclusion the implementation of Role-playing in the course allowed the students to gain an insightinto the problematic related with packaging waste taking into account the advantages anddisadvantages of the existing waste management systems.