Title
Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game
Author
Blokland, Erik (Student TU Delft)
Cullinan, Caroline (Student TU Delft)
Mulder, Doreen (Student TU Delft)
Overman, Willie (Student TU Delft)
Visscher, Marin (Student TU Delft)
Zaidi, Amir (Student TU Delft)
Bueno Perez, M.R. (TU Delft Computer Graphics and Visualisation)
Bidarra, Rafael (TU Delft Computer Graphics and Visualisation) 
Contributor
Mitchell, Alex (editor)
Vosmeer, Mirjam (editor)
Date
2021
Abstract
Within citizenship education, a new focus is being laid upon what is expected of citizens within a diverse and lightning-fast society: more emphasis is placed on teaching students how to understand and respect other people’s opinions, regardless of how they may contrast with one’s own. However, learning to be tolerant with others’ viewpoints comes with hurdles, as currently it is quite easy to become stuck within one’s own worldview. We developed Diermocratie, an in-classroom game aimed at encouraging a more open conversation, which breaks through these hurdles and addresses key competencies such as empathy and argumentation. By role-playing metaphors that parallel real-world events, students explore their own predispositions, are made aware of the perspectives of others, and are enabled to discuss issues objectively. From a preliminary evaluation, most students could identify the parallelism between the in-game metaphor and real-world situations. They also indicated that the game motivates them to further talk to each other, approaching sensitive topics among them.
Subject
Citizenship education
Diversity
Multiple perspectives
Serious games
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_28
Publisher
Springer
Embargo date
2022-06-06
ISBN
978-3-030-92299-3
Source
Interactive Storytelling - 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Proceedings
Event
14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, 2021-12-07 → 2021-12-10, Tallinn, Estonia
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 0302-9743, 13138 LNCS
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2021 Erik Blokland, Caroline Cullinan, Doreen Mulder, Willie Overman, Marin Visscher, Amir Zaidi, M.R. Bueno Perez, Rafael Bidarra