The Great Georges Project, a community center and contemporary arts center in an old church in Liverpool, England, provides theater and music workshops, shows, and play groups for adults. (EB)

Theatre, particularly the use of puppet shows and games, can play an important role in the development of the personality of the preschool child. (NH)

Proposes "an analogy with games as a useful tool in the appreciation of Ionesco's conduct of his plays." (Author)

Describes a variety of methods for enlivening biology teaching, including games, simulations, puzzles, debates, and unusual assignments. (EB)

The author emphasizes the need for play-situation learning to be started in the preschool years and carried through the elementary grades. (AP)

Points out how dice games can be used to teach mathematics concepts, discussing 13 dice games of varying difficulty. (RH)

Fourteen mildly retarded adolescents who participated in a mathematics program involving games (dice, cards, dominoes, boards, and spinners) performed significantly better than 14 Ss in a control group who completed traditional drill and workbook exercises. Experimental Ss also had higher time-on-task scores. (CL)

Describes French language game called Metropolice which provides excitement of a chase over a board map of the Paris Metro. Game provides an opportunity in which degrees of skill in asking, answering, and responding have a proving ground and creates a blend of chance and linguistic challenge. (Author/BK)

Game-playing has become a more generalized phenomenon than ever, entering into public recreation, school programs, and commercial promotional efforts. Games require competitive interaction between two or more individuals, making game-playing useful in clinical therapy and opening games to technological innovation. The latest such innovation is the…

Breaks were imposed in the game Monopoly, at which times the players, college level students, elected one person and gave him or her the power to change the rules. Behavior similar to political behavior in the real world resulted. The students discovered the resemblance and wrote papers on what had occurred. (RM)