The Power of Play in Higher Education

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Making a Case for the Playful University
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   Chapter 2 Exploration: Becoming Playful—The Power of a Ludic Module
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   Chapter 3 Exploration: ESCAPE! Puzzling Out Learning Theories Through Play
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   Chapter 4 Exploration: ‘I Learned to Play Again’ The Integration of Active Play as a Learning Experience for Sports Coaching Undergraduates
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   Chapter 5 Sketch: The Training Game
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   Chapter 6 Exploration: Play in Practice—Innovation Through Play in the Postgraduate Curriculum
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   Chapter 7 Exploration: Experiences of Running a ‘Play and Creativity’ Module in a School of Art & Design
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   Chapter 8 The Dark Would: Higher Education, Play and Playfulness [i]
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    Chapter 9 Exploration: Playing with Place—Responding to Invitations
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    Chapter 10 Exploration: Cabinets of Curiosities—Playing with Artefacts in Professional Teacher Education
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    Chapter 11 Sketch: Playful Pedagogies—Collaborations Between Undergraduates and School Pupils in the Outdoor Learning Centre and the Pop-Up “Playscape”
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    Chapter 12 Sketch: Teaching and Learning Inside the Culture Shoe Box
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    Chapter 13 Exploration: Dopamine and the Hard Work of Learning Science
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    Chapter 14 Exploration: Play in Engineering Education
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    Chapter 15 Experiencing the Necessity of Project Management Through the Egg-Dropping-Challenge
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    Chapter 16 Exploration: Public Engagement Activities for Chemistry Students
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    Chapter 17 Sketch: Playful Maths
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    Chapter 18 Sketch: Connecting People and Places Using Worms and Waste
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    Chapter 19 Sketch: Maths, Meccano® and Motivation
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    Chapter 20 Exploration: Playful Urban Learning Space—An Indisciplinary Collaboration
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    Chapter 21 Sketch: Novelty Shakes Things Up in the History Classroom
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    Chapter 22 Exploration: Don’t Write on Walls! Playing with Cityscapes in a Foreign Language Course
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    Chapter 23 Sketch: Poetry as Play—Using Riskless Poetry Writing to Support Instruction
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    Chapter 24 Sketch: On Word Play in Support of Academic Development
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    Chapter 25 Sketch: The Communications Factory
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    Chapter 26 Sketch: Playful Writing with Writing PAD
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    Chapter 27 Exploration: Wigs, Brown Sauce and Theatrical Dames—Clinical Simulation as Play
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    Chapter 28 Sketch: Using Play to Bridge the Communication Divide
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    Chapter 29 Exploration: Building the Abstract—Metaphorical Play-Doh® Modelling in Health Sciences
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    Chapter 30 Sketch: Our Learning Journey with LEGO®
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    Chapter 31 Sketch: Using LEGO® to Explore ‘Professional Love’ as an Element of Youth Work Practice—Opportunities and Obstacles
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    Chapter 32 Sketch: Creating LEGO® Representations of Theory
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    Chapter 33 Exploration: A Dancer and a Writer Walk into a Classroom
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    Chapter 34 Exploration: From the Players Point of View
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    Chapter 35 Exploration: Wardopoly—Game-Based Experiential Learning in Nurse Leadership Education
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    Chapter 36 Exploration: Using Play to Design Play—Gamification and Student Involvement in the Production of Games-Based Learning Resources for Research Methods Teaching
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    Chapter 37 Tabletop Gaming in Wildlife Conservation—‘Park Life’
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    Chapter 38 Sketch: ‘Frogger It, I’d Rather Be Playing Computer Games Than Referencing My Assignment’—A Harvard Referencing Game
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    Chapter 39 Sketch: Using Play to Facilitate Faculty–Student Partnership—How Can You Co-design a Module?
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    Chapter 40 Sketch: Imagination Needs Moodling
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    Chapter 41 Exploration: It’s a Serious Business Learning How to Reference—Playfully