Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past by C. Edward Watson & Thomas Chase Hagood

Author:C. Edward Watson & Thomas Chase Hagood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

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2 days of game setup using dialogic pedagogy, 3 days of role playing

5 days using dialogic pedagogy and modules including debate, student led discussion, lab exercise, and problem-based learning activity

The differences in student experiences between these two treatments are noteworthy. Within the RTTP treatment, the instructor actively facilitated in-class discussions only on the first two days of the unit, whereas in the control treatment, this occurred every day. Students in the control group received significantly more instruction on how to read and interpret the primary sources used. Students in the control group were never tasked with occupying an identity other than their own, whereas students in the RTTP group took on historical identities in character. Both groups received instruction and secondary materials that were carefully designed by professional experts (Lazrus and the instructor, who holds a PhD in art history ) to elicit meaningful engagement with the material. However, debriefing discussions about student learning and content occurred in every class for the control group, whereas they occurred only on the final day of the RTTP unit.

It should be noted that neither the experimental nor control interventions of this study can be considered traditional art historical pedagogy . The authors chose an array of different active learning approaches as a control for a representative sample of how it is possible to incorporate non-RTTP active learning into a survey course. Although a comparison of traditional slide lecture pedagogy with the RTTP and non-RTTP groups may have been instructive, time constraints for the study precluded such a research design; during the semester of the study, the instructor only taught two sections of the course. Furthermore, based on the parameters of this edited volume, it was imperative that the study includes a comparison of RTTP with other active learning techniques.

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