Playful learning, space and materiality: An integrative literature review

Helle Hovgaard Jørgensen, Vibeke Schrøder, Helle Marie Skovbjerg

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Abstract

Teacher and social education are increasingly challenged to adopt student-centred approaches by focusing on learning spaces and materiality. This literature review investigates how space and materiality are approached in the literature on playful learning in higher education. This study reports on an integrative literature review of the relations between playful learning, space and materiality in higher education. The review is guided by the following research question: How are space and materiality approached in the research literature on playful learning in higher education?
A thematic analysis of the selected studies was carried out and we identified three themes encompassing playful learning, space and materiality in higher education, one theme with studies explicitly approaching playful learning in higher education, another approaching ‘materiality as a catalyst for playful learning’ and the third with an approach concerning ‘established educational methods including play, playfulness and materiality’. We conclude that materials are invisible parts of playful learning, space is vaguely explored and no studies on play, learning, space and materiality address teacher and social education.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScandinavian Journal of Educational Research
ISSN0031-3831
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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