Who Makes The Rules?
Who is Getting Played? Games, Play and Decolonising Education
presented by Dr Luca Morini, Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Centre for Global Learning, Education and Attainment
What can the role of playfulness and games be when engaging in the complex topic of decolonisation of education? Are they necessary liberatory? Or can they also have a “darker” side? We invite you to join an exploration of how play can be deployed to insidiously further neo-colonial agendas, and, by converse, how playful metaphors can support students and staff in engaging with these complex topics. Following this introduction, participants will be prompted to actively join the conversation, based on their own personal experiences and histories, to collectively build a picture of the colonial “games” our institutions play, and therefore become more aware of how we might re-design them to be more plural, just, inclusive and liberated.Dr Luca Morini is Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Centre for Global Learning, Education and Attainment (GLEA), currently focusing on intercultural engagement, participatory approaches to systems literacy, critical digital capacity building and critical global HE policy. Keeping to a strongly transdisciplinary and socially engaged perspective, his research aims at fostering cooperation, systems literacy and critical awareness through qualitative and participatory methodologies. He has been working in higher education since 2010, teaching Psychology of Education, Psychology of Inclusion and Ecology of Human Development, always with an emphasis on co-creation, inclusivity and broadening participation.