Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Erik Blokland; Caroline Cullinan; Doreen Mulder; Willie Overman; Marin Visscher; Amir Zaidi; Mijael R. Bueno Pérez; Rafael Bidarra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_28

Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game

Erik Blokland, Caroline Cullinan, Doreen Mulder^*, Willie Overman, Marin Visscher, Amir Zaidi, Mijael R. Bueno Pérez, Rafael Bidarra

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interactive Storytelling - 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Alex Mitchell, Mirjam Vosmeer
Publisher	Springer
Pages	293-306
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-92300-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-92299-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_28
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021 - Tallinn, Estonia Duration: 7 Dec 2021 → 10 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13138 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021
Country/Territory	Estonia
City	Tallinn
Period	7/12/21 → 10/12/21

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Keywords

Citizenship education
Diversity
Multiple perspectives
Serious games

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Blokland, E., Cullinan, C., Mulder, D., Overman, W., Visscher, M., Zaidi, A., Bueno Pérez, M. R., & Bidarra, R. (2021). Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game. In A. Mitchell, & M. Vosmeer (Eds.), Interactive Storytelling - 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Proceedings (pp. 293-306). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13138 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_28

Blokland, Erik ; Cullinan, Caroline ; Mulder, Doreen et al. / Exploring Multiple Perspectives in Citizenship Education with a Serious Game. Interactive Storytelling - 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Proceedings. editor / Alex Mitchell ; Mirjam Vosmeer. Springer, 2021. pp. 293-306 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Interactive Storytelling - 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Alex Mitchell; Mirjam Vosmeer. Springer, 2021. p. 293-306 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13138 LNCS).

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