Food for thought: Education and Training spends a day at the Cockpit Theatre

Abstract

Explaining how the world's resources could be gobbled up by a mushrooming population within thirty years is not easy with youngsters whose grasp of geography — let alone economics — is limited. But this is the task currently being undertaken at ILEA'S Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone. The team of five actor‐teachers devised an ingenious and highly complex game with groups of youngsters each representing a country, and with cards representing units of food, population, industrial potential and natural disasters. For two hours they bargain, negotiate, fight and strike up alliances in an effort to get the population fed; but as the century progresses the population cards far outweigh those for food, despite all their efforts.

Citation

(1972), "Food for thought: Education and Training spends a day at the Cockpit Theatre", Education + Training, Vol. 14 No. 12, pp. 380-381. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb043351