Enjoy our next lecture in the Spring 2022 season of the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “To Play or Not to Play: Edu-Larp in Curricular Settings” by Katrin Geneuss! In this talk, Geneuss discusses her work co-designing and researching Student Activating Role-playing Games (STARS) since 2016. She discusses the features that make edu-larp significant with reference to cousin forms of playful learning such as Process Drama and Theatre of the Oppressed. Geneuss offers approaches to game design and implementation in school settings with regard to mandatory participation, grading, hierarchies, curricular goals, and space/time constraints. She describes the qualitative and quantitative research results gathered by her team after implementing 16 edu-larps, giving concrete examplesof two of their scenarios, King and Accused. Finally, her talk offers best practices before, during, and after edu-larps to maximize their learning impacts.
Link to Geneuss’ 2021 article in the International Journal of Role-Playing on this topic: https://ijrp.subcultures.nl/?page_id=761
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Description of event:
In this talk, Katrin Geneuss outlines several specific games her team runs in classrooms of all school types, from primary through upper secondary. Through evaluations and design based research, they have deduced over a dozen best practice principles on safety, facilitation, reflection, etc. Since edu-larp is a specific modality that differs from other types of experiential learning, specific challenges need to be taken into consideration when applying this technique in formal curricular settings.
Presenter bio:
Katrin Geneuss is professor at interim in the Faculty of Teacher Education at the Department for German Language and Literature at Siegen University, Germany. Moreover, she is a guest researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich at the Research Centre for Values Education. She holds a PhD with an empirical study of modeling edu-larp as a drama-tool in German lessons. Her main focus in research and teaching are hybrid learning arrangements applied in language teaching. Prior to working at Siegen University, Katrin worked as a teacher and lecturer in Uppsala, Sweden (2008 – 1016), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2016 – 2020) and Würzburg University (2020 – 2021).