Michigan State University Extension
Diversity and Pluralism - 02090154
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED128235 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Whatever Happened to Debbie Kraft? An Awareness Game
for Educators, Counselors, Students, and Parents.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 27 p.; For related documents, see SO 009 221 and 222
AVAILABILITY: Feminists Northwest, 5038 Nicklas Place NE,
Seattle, Washington 98105 ($0.75 paper cover)
ABSTRACT: An educational game relating to alternate career
and life-style choices of an 18-year-old female high-school
senior comprises this booklet. The game is designed to aid
young women in their attempt to make decisions about their
lives. Choices offered at the beginning of the game are:
You
decide to go to college in the fall, You decide to get a
job, You decide to marry your boyfriend, and You decide to
spend your summer at the beach and wait until next fall to
make a decision. Each choice is followed by several
options,
all requiring the player to turn to another page and
encounter yet another set of options. All game options
eventually lead to seven questions: (1) Do you feel the
failure was Debbie's fault? (2) What do you think will
happen to Debbie next? (3) What groups and agencies in
Debbie's community could have given her information,
encouragement, and moral support? (4) How could Debbie's
situation have changed? Who could have changed it? (5) How
could Debbie's parents, teachers, and counselors have
prepared her to become an independent, confident, self
fulfilled woman? (6) How could they have halped her avoid
getting trapped? (7) In what ways are people working for
social change so that young women can have different life
options? Bibliographic sources are cited. (Author/DB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Career-Exploration;
Case-Studies; Counseling-Effectiveness; Cultural-Awareness;
Decision-Making; Games-; Guidance-Objectives; Problem
Solving; School-Counseling; Secondary-Education; Self
Concept; Sex-Role; Sex-Stereotypes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Career-Awareness; *Career-Choice;
*Decision-Making-Skills; *Educational-Games; *Females-
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