...Rebecca Shargel; Meredith Katz Purpose Our study investigates how middle and high school students faced difficult history through role-play in an online simulation. Participants from ten secondary schools played historic or contemporary figures and deliberated on a contentious issue: What should...

...Sarah Fisher; Florian Justwan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to detail a simulation exploring the academic and real-world debates surrounding constitutional design. Design/methodology/approach The authors deployed this simulation in different contexts: undergraduate courses...

...Katherina Ann Payne; James V. Hoffman; Samuel DeJulio Purpose Democracy is learned through doing, not telling. The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from an action research project where a group of fourth-grade students participated in a simulation that explored the possibilities...

...William C. Wood; Lynne F. Stover; Martha C. Hopkins In-class societies such as the Mini-Society and Mini-Economy provide opportunities for teaching important lessons about choice, scarcity, and economic organization. Those lessons are multiplied when in-class societies meet each other for simulated...