The Power of Play in Higher Education Creativity in Tertiary Learnin
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
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The Power of Play in Higher Education “Academics are a justifiably sceptical lot and love to privilege logical and analytical thinking. To get us out of our routinized ways of creating meaning, assigning merit and judging worth we need to draw senses and powers other than purely rational cognition. Play galvanizes creativity, inspires action and triggers different ways of building knowledge. It’s also an insurrectionary force that challenges bureaucratized and siloed thinking and practice. In this visionary book packed with wonderful vignettes, exercises, techniques and suggestions you will find ways to rethink and broaden your teaching and academic practice. Product warning: this book changes lives.” —Professor Stephen Brookfield, University of St Thomas, USA “The importance of play as an ecology for learning and discovery is often overlooked in tertiary education, so these author/editors are to be congratulated for bringing together such a diverse and valuable set of pedagogical narratives about how play is being used to encourage learning and creativity in higher education. This is a ‘must read’ book for tertiary educators who are interested in and who care about the creative development of learners and themselves.” —Professor Norman Jackson, University of Surrey, UK “This book is a unique and timely contribution to the field of play and learning in Higher Education. It presents voices from practitioners across the sector demonstrating the extensive scope and scale of engagement with playful forms of learning. Through a series of in-depth case studies and vignettes of playful practice, this book inspires and convinces. It is packed full of examples and ideas, bringing together theory with experiences from the field. A must for creative educators everywhere!” —Professor Nicola Whitton, Durham University, UK “Learning through play is a powerful methodology: this invaluable guide illuminates through an excellent range of UK and North-American contributions how ludic approaches are used to good effect in higher education. This highly practical and evidence-informed volume illustrates how creativity can be boosted, fostering student engagement, and generating enthusiasm for learning.” —Professor Phil Race, Edge Hill University, UK; Professor Sally Brown, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Alison James · Chrissi Nerantzi Editors
The Power of Play in Higher Education Creativity in Tertiary Learning
Editors Alison James University of Winchester Winchester, UK
Chrissi Nerantzi Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-95779-1 ISBN 978-3-319-95780-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95780-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018958593 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting
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