Playful and Creative LD

Case studies and approaches to playful and creative LD endeavors.

Drawing as a way of knowing: Visual practices as the route to becoming academic

This case study illustrates what happened when the authors took a playful approach in a first year undergraduate academic skills module and a graduate Facilitating Student Learning module asking students to “draw to learn.”

Reference:

Abegglen, S., Burns, T. and Sinfield, S. (2018) ‘Drawing as a way of knowing: Visual practices as the route to becoming academic’, Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 28, pp.173-185. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.600

Playful higher education: Voices, activities and co-creations from the PUP Community

This open-access book is for people and from people with a passion for playfulness and playful Higher Education. It is a conglomerate of all the great scholars, wonderful practitioners and passionate participants from all over the world that has joined hands, hearts and minds in the Playful University Platform (PUP) for the last years.

Reference:

Nørgård, R. T., Solheim, J. and Bukholt, K. J. (2022) Playful higher education: Voices, activities and co-creations from the PUP Community. Center for Higher Education Futures, Aarhus University. Available at: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/playful-higher-education-voices-activities-and-co-creations-from-

Re-imagining the curriculum: Spaces for disruption

Re-imagining the Curriculum argues that academics, academic developers and academic leaders need to undertake curriculum work in their institutions that has the potential to disrupt common sense notions about curriculum and create spaces for engagement with scholarly concepts and theories, to re‑imagine curricula for the changing times.

Reference:

Quinn, L. (ed.) (2019) Re-imagining the curriculum: Spaces for disruption. African Sun Media. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1nzfzm1

The use and value of play in HE: A study

This study is an investigation into play-based and playful approaches to learning in across all disciplines in Higher Education. It has specific interest strands relating to the teaching of management theory, and concepts and value systems attached to play.

Reference:

James, A. (2022) The use and value of play in HE: A study. Independent scholarship supported by The Imagination Lab Foundation. Available at: https://engagingimagination.com

The power of play in higher education: Creativity in tertiary learning

This book demonstrates how play can be used to improve the university experience; argues that play is not just critical for early years education, but throughout the educational lifespan; illuminates new ways of overcoming challenges and liberating thought using play.

Reference:

James, A. and Nerantzi, C. (eds.) The power of play in higher education: Creativity in tertiary learning. Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-95780-7

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