Principal Investigator: Biz Nijdam, Lecturer, Department of Central Eastern and Northern European Studies & Centre for Migration Studies
Project description
This project explores the capacity and efficacy of board games in teaching about Indigenous issues, decolonization, settler colonialism, and the tensions that emerge between Indigenous sovereignty and contemporary immigration/migration.
Research questions
- What are the appropriate learning outcomes for game-based learning? How do we measure efficacy in learning through board games?
- What competencies in critical diversity literacy can be fostered?
- Can board games be valuable education tools in classroom and community settings to teach Indigenous issues that pertain to settler colonialism and immigration/migration?
- How do competitive games and team-based games create different collective core narratives of belonging?
- Which stories told better meet the goals of educating on settler colonialism?
- To what extent does the collective designing of a game on these themes succeed in meeting the learning outcomes of decolonization?
- What narrative and visual elements of gameplay mirror effective pedagogical strategies in classroom learning?