GAMINCLUSIVE · Gameful approaches for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion education

Gameful approaches for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion education

The variety in people’s demographics, beliefs, experiences, and preferences (e.g., gender, ethnicity, race, religion, socio-economic situation, sexual orientation) contributes to improving many aspects of our society. The benefits of this ​diversity of representations, models, and heuristics include more efficient problem-solving approaches, accurate forecasts, and creative ideas; broader and deeper evaluations; and better discerning about the facts; while outperforming homogeneous teams in several situations. Despite the advantages, ​inclusive practices that recognize and value personal differences to the detriment of inequalities and discrimination are still an ongoing public need. Education can and must play a significant role in tackling these systemic issues by empowering individuals with the needed knowledge, skills, and attitudes to reflect and change their own actions. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) education integrates prevention and response to discrimination incidents through the mitigation of implicit biases, raising awareness of behaviours that might have inequitable effects and emphasising policies to investigate prejudice. GamInclusive proposes a framework to guide professionals and enthusiasts in designing gameful EDI educational approaches that promote cognitive, behavioural, and attitudinal learning to mitigate implicit bias and empower individuals in reflecting, exercising, and upholding each others’ rights, by: - Integrating theories, design methodologies, and existing outcomes of gameful design and EDI educational approaches through a systematic review of the literature and applications to consolidate the union of these topics; - Quantitative and qualitatively ​analyzing empirical results of a gameful EDI educational system within University settings by designing, developing, and evaluating EDI instructional materials, interactive prototypes, and a gameful web application; - Defining a framework to design gameful EDI educational strategies that cognitively raises awareness about social issues and engages individuals with behavioural and attitudinal changes, based on theoretical​ and empirical evidence.

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