Role-play has escaped from the drama studio and established itself as one of the most effective learning techniques in language, literature, history, geography and other curriculum subjects. It is also a crucial component of most management and human relationship training.

Few teachers have the expertise to maximise the potential of role-play. But in this accessible volume Gavin Bolton and Dorothy Heathcote, the well=known partnership from Durham and Newcastle Universities respectively, demonstrate through a penetrating analysis of numerous examples, how role-play can be applied to all kinds of interactive contexts. So if you are in the business of training or education professional professional management students or pupils, here is a wealth of proven practical strategies and techniques. There is also sound advice on what not to do.