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Learning through roleplaying: promoting exploration, experimentation and agency

17.06.2023 | 14:30 - 15:45

Saturday 17 Jun 2023

17.06.2023 | 14:30 - 15:45

14:30 - 15:45

David Bruce Hall

David Bruce Hall
Learning

Roleplaying is becoming a popular device for learning. It allows participants to step into important roles, socially experiment and take risks in a safe supportive environment. It promotes adventure, curiosity, and agency, and can be done anywhere.

Speakers will open the sessions by providing examples of roleplaying in diverse educational settings. Participants will be introduced to role-playing methods, narrative crafting, and how to facilitiating roleplaying with a group. Participant will then embark on a roleplaying journey themselves, guided by the speakers.

Participants will be provided with personas, and a list of objectives they must complete in teams through collaborative storytelling. Particpants will be challenged to use probelm solving, quick thinking and communication skills. Throughout the session participants experience into the power of collaborative story telling and the skill building roleplaying offers.

Outcomes: what will participants get from this session? Skills, knowledge, experience etc.

Participants will discover how to craft narratives in 3 parts, how roleplaying can be used to explore speculation, problem solving and critical thinking, and experience how roleplaying promotes agency, motivation inclusion for participants. The participants will be shown how simple developing a roleplaying scenario can be and be provided with some accessible resources to use roleplaying in their own practices.

Session speakers

Shaun Ussher
Learning and Engagement Researcher
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
Ireland
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Shaun Ussher is a psychological researcher, educator and science communicator. He has experience working with participant based research in universities, science centres and NGO's on a variety of scientific and educational projects with diverse audiences. Shaun will speak about his experience developing a new roleplaying game for refugee families in Ireland and the use that roleplaying has served in educational workshops, and exhibitions in Science Gallery.
Sabrina Vitting-Seerup
Postdoc
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Denmark
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Sabrina Vitting-Seerup is a Postdoc at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, and has her own science communication company, Ren Snak, where she disseminates research in talks, podcasts and books, and teaches others to do the same. In this session, Sabrina will explain how she uses forum theatre-inspired roleplay to train science communication professionals and researchers to tackle push-back from science deniers.
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Khalil Thirlaway
Creative Producer
The Natural History Museum
London
United Kingdom
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Khalil is an award-winning science communicator who uses creative approaches such as story, multisensory experiences, games and roleplay to engage audiences with unfamiliar or challenging subjects, or with familiar topics from a whole new perspective. In this session Khalil will share from his experiences in creating the "play" side of roleplay, and its power to bring audiences out of their comfort zones in healthy ways.

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