Философия и игра
Philosophy and Game

How to Increase Student Motivation for Achievement Through Dialogue and Creativity?

Summary/Abstract: Sooner or later every university or high school teacher in philosophy faces the challenge: How to motivate students for being seriously engaged with doing philosophy? This article investigates a possibility to motivate students through engaging them with playful activities and with creating their own philosophical games. In the process of playful educational exchange, students are enabled to gain an authentic personal experience in doing philosophy in a dialogical and creative manner. The theses in this paper are supported by the empirical results of an elective university course on the topic Philosophy and Game, which was designed and delivered in 2017-18 at the Philosophy Department of the Plovdiv University. This course demonstrates the beneficial impact of the playful way to philosophize on students’ motivation and achievements.

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