Games and Intercultural Learning
Do you like to play? At the Intercultural Learning Lab we have a special interest in building intercultural competence through games and play, to create unique and transformative learning experiences. Using educational and transformative role-playing games, participants can explore and examine intercultural topics, such as taking perspective and building empathy.
In our courses we work with a range of existing leisure and educational games that address topics for intercultural learning. Outside our courses we develop and playtest game ideas that have the potential to foster building intercultural competence. Join us on this exciting journey!
Workshops
Transformative Games for Intercultural Learning
Do you like to play? In this course, you will develop and broaden intercultural competence while engaging in games and play. Examples are educational role-play, board games with topics related to intercultural learning and games for storytelling all have the potential to enhance perspective-taking and building empathy. You will work with tools and practice skills for reflection that can deepen your intercultural learning experience.
Rocket - Virtual Exchange
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Intercultural Competence - Introduction GameBased (English Language)
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Videos
- Games and Play for Intercultural Learning
This session will outline how collaborative game play can spark curiosity and increase empathy to broaden intercultural competencies. It will examine the emotional, transformative experiences participants have when playing games that highlight storytelling, communication and teamwork. It explores aspects of role-playing to promote engagement for meaningful change of perspective.
- "Make it Urgent": Prototyping Role-play Design for Intercultural Learning
This presentation will showcase the benefits for group dynamics and immerse participation, challenges that occurred and good practice examples from the classroom. The Intercultural Learning Lab at Goettingen University offers workshops and seminars for students of all faculty and aims at broadening intercultural competencies and 21st Century Skills.
- SumMit - Student Project for Intercultural Competence
SumMit interactive multiplayer tablet game. Developed as a joint project of students at the Intercultural Learning Lab/University of Goettingen and the department of Game Development, Prof. Dominik Wilhelm, Hochschule Harz. Workshop report published in Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung ZFHE.
https://www.zfhe.at/index.php/zfhe/article/view/1087.
SumMit - ein interaktives Spiel zur Förderung interkultureller Kompetenz: