The Power of Play in Higher Education: Creativity in Tertiary Learning

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This book examines the increasing popularity of creativity and play in tertiary learning, and how it can be harnessed to enhance the student experience at university. While play is often misunderstood as something ‘trivial’ and associated with early years education, the editors and contributors argue that play contributes to social and human development and relations at a fundamental level. This volume invalidates the commonly held assumption that play is only for children, drawing together numerous case studies from higher education that demonstrate how researchers, students and managers can benefit from play as a means of liberating thought, overturning obstacles and discovering fresh approaches to persistent challenges. This diverse and wide-ranging edited collection unites play theory and practice to address the gulf in research on this fascinating topic. It will be of interest and value to educators, students and scholars of play and creativity, as well as practitioners and academic leaders looking to incorporate play into the curriculum. Front Matter ....Pages i-liv Making a Case for the Playful University (Alison James)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Exploration: Becoming Playful—The Power of a Ludic Module (Sandra Sinfield, Tom Burns, Sandra Abegglen)....Pages 23-31 Exploration: ESCAPE! Puzzling Out Learning Theories Through Play (Jennie Mills, Emma King)....Pages 33-41 Exploration: ‘I Learned to Play Again’ The Integration of Active Play as a Learning Experience for Sports Coaching Undergraduates (Richard Cheetham)....Pages 43-53 Sketch: The Training Game (Scott Roberts)....Pages 55-56 Exploration: Play in Practice—Innovation Through Play in the Postgraduate Curriculum (Sophy Smith)....Pages 57-66 Exploration: Experiences of Running a ‘Play and Creativity’ Module in a School of Art & Design (Gareth Loudon)....Pages 67-74 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 The Dark Would: Higher Education, Play and Playfulness [i] (Rebecca Fisher, Philip Gaydon)....Pages 77-91 Exploration: Playing with Place—Responding to Invitations (Helen Clarke, Sharon Witt)....Pages 93-101 Exploration: Cabinets of Curiosities—Playing with Artefacts in Professional Teacher Education (Sarah Williamson)....Pages 103-111 Sketch: Playful Pedagogies—Collaborations Between Undergraduates and School Pupils in the Outdoor Learning Centre and the Pop-Up “Playscape” (Chantelle Haughton, Siân Sarwar)....Pages 113-116 Sketch: Teaching and Learning Inside the Culture Shoe Box (Hoda Wassif, Maged Zakher)....Pages 117-119 Front Matter ....Pages 121-121 Exploration: Dopamine and the Hard Work of Learning Science (Lindsay Wheeler, Michael Palmer)....Pages 123-130 Exploration: Play in Engineering Education (Bruce Kothmann)....Pages 131-140 Experiencing the Necessity of Project Management Through the Egg-Dropping-Challenge (Tobias Seidl)....Pages 141-143 Exploration: Public Engagement Activities for Chemistry Students (Dudley Shallcross, Tim Harrison)....Pages 145-158 Sketch: Playful Maths (Chris Budd)....Pages 159-161 Sketch: Connecting People and Places Using Worms and Waste (Sharon Boyd, Andrea Roe)....Pages 163-165 Sketch: Maths, Meccano® and Motivation (Judith McCullouch)....Pages 167-169 Exploration: Playful Urban Learning Space—An Indisciplinary Collaboration (Clive Holtham, Tine Bech)....Pages 171-180 Sketch: Novelty Shakes Things Up in the History Classroom (Carey Fleiner)....Pages 181-182 Front Matter ....Pages 183-183 Exploration: Don’t Write on Walls! Playing with Cityscapes in a Foreign Language Course (Mélanie Péron)....Pages 185-194 Sketch: Poetry as Play—Using Riskless Poetry Writing to Support Instruction (Ann Marie Klein)....Pages 195-197 Sketch: On Word Play in Support of Academic Development (Daphne Loads)....Pages 199-201 Sketch: The Communications Factory (Suzanne Rankin-Dia, Rob Lakin)....Pages 203-205 Sketch: Playful Writing with Writing PAD (Julia Reeve, Kaye Towlson)....Pages 207-209 Front Matter ....Pages 211-211 Exploration: Wigs, Brown Sauce and Theatrical Dames—Clinical Simulation as Play (Caroline Pelletier, Roger Kneebone)....Pages 213-221 Sketch: Using Play to Bridge the Communication Divide (Jools Symons, Nancy Davies, Marc Walton, John Hudson)....Pages 223-225 Exploration: Building the Abstract—Metaphorical Play-Doh® Modelling in Health Sciences (Rachel Stead)....Pages 227-238 Sketch: Our Learning Journey with LEGO® (Alison James, Chrissi Nerantzi)....Pages 239-242 Sketch: Using LEGO® to Explore ‘Professional Love’ as an Element of Youth Work Practice—Opportunities and Obstacles (Martin E. Purcell)....Pages 243-245 Sketch: Creating LEGO® Representations of Theory (Nicola Simmons)....Pages 247-249 Front Matter ....Pages 251-251 Exploration: A Dancer and a Writer Walk into a Classroom (Seth Hudson, Boris Willis)....Pages 253-261 Exploration: From the Players Point of View (Maxwell Hartt, Hadi Hosseini)....Pages 263-271 Exploration: Wardopoly—Game-Based Experiential Learning in Nurse Leadership Education (Bernadette Henderson, Andrew Clements, Melanie Webb, Alexander Kofinas)....Pages 273-282 Exploration: Using Play to Design Play—Gamification and Student Involvement in the Production of Games-Based Learning Resources for Research Methods Teaching (Natalia Gerodetti, Darren Nixon)....Pages 283-290 Tabletop Gaming in Wildlife Conservation—‘Park Life’ (Louise Robinson, Ian Turner)....Pages 291-293 Sketch: ‘Frogger It, I’d Rather Be Playing Computer Games Than Referencing My Assignment’—A Harvard Referencing Game (Tracy Dix)....Pages 295-297 Sketch: Using Play to Facilitate Faculty–Student Partnership—How Can You Co-design a Module? (Sarah Dyer, Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka)....Pages 299-302 Sketch: Imagination Needs Moodling (Debra Josephson Abrams)....Pages 303-305 Exploration: It’s a Serious Business Learning How to Reference—Playfully (Juliette Smeed)....Pages 307-315 Back Matter ....Pages 317-359