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

Front Matter ....Pages i-liv
 Making a Case for the Playful University  (Alison James)....Pages 1-19
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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