Playful learning in higher education: an inter-cultural dialogue between UK and DK
Date: October 7, 2020, 15.00-17.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.
Fee: Free
Registration deadline: October 5, 2020, 12.00
Registration:  Here
Speakers: Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Professor, Design School Kolding, Denmark and
Nicola Whitton, Professor, Durham University, UK
Playful higher education is a growing field of interest both in research, development and practice. This webinar presents the lay of the land and the state of the art by way of two leading scholars within the field of playful learning Professor Helle Marie Skovbjerg and Professor Nicola Whitton.
In the webinar, Whitton and Skovbjerg will present their approach to and reflections on playful learning, strategies for bringing playful learning into higher education as well give insight into what effective playful learning might look like based on their extensive experience with playful practices, play events and playful design. As part of the webinar, you will also get the opportunity to try out playful learning through playful prompts for intercultural dialogue, exploration and experiences.
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Ensuring women’s participation in the Covidian Era
Date: October 22, 2020, 10.00-11.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.
Fee: Free
Registration deadline: October 19, 2020, 12.00
Registration: Here
Speaker: Dr Jane den Hollander AO, Professor Emerita, Deakin University, Australia
The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought into stark relief the fragility of our human species. Few nations have escaped and most communities and economies have been affected in ways that would that would have been inconceivable just 12 months ago. All communities are now fearful and anxious and focusing inward. In this changed world how are women affected - in their workplaces, at home in their private lives and what is required to ensure women continue to progress to equality on all measures including work participation, security and safety and pay? Will we emerge from this era with the gains made pre-COVID? The discussion will focus on how we, university leaders and researchers and teachers, will contribute to the conversation thus ensuring equal advantage for the next generation of women in our universities and in the global community more generally. There are risks in this Covidian Era but there are also opportunities. Our university community must act else we will lose the future.
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Leading playfully
Date: October 27, 2020, 14.00-16.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.
Fee: Free
Registration deadline: October 26, 2020, 10.00
Registration: Here
Speaker: Alex Mosely, Head of Curriculum Enhancement, University of Leicester, UK
Leadership, management and strategy are often seen as the least playful of roles in organisations – whether in business or in higher education. They are formal, cold, often delivered from on high to those down below. Set in stone as The Way It Is. Freire suggested an alternative to this: that communities, through scaffolded processes, can be more effective in leading and strategizing themselves than the traditional imposed model.
In this talk, Dr Alex Mosely will examine the way that play – as a social activity – can support a Freire-ian approach to leadership: and how leadership through playful facilitation might offer a more effective future model for organisations.
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