In the last years we have observed a growing interest in the use of gamification approaches for climate change education. While most practices are related to digital gaming, there is a new trend which is still academically unexplored: escape rooms. The main objective of this paper is to serve as an initial exploratory study in this field by identifying and analysing climate change-related escape rooms. For that purpose we carried out a web search and a qualitative content analysis. A total of 17 initiatives are described and compared, unravelling their main audience, country of origin, topics, scenarios and objectives covered. The paper also highlights what escape rooms can offer to climate change education: experiential and immersive learning, problem solving and critical thinking skills, and a sense of collaboration and urgency.
Energy transition is key to achieving a sustainable future. In this transition, an often neglected pillar is raising awareness and educating youth on the benefits, complexities, and urgency of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency. The Master Energy for Society, and particularly the course “Society in Transition”, aims at providing a first overview on the urgency and complexities of the energy transition. However, educating on the energy transition brings challenges: it is a complex topic to understand for students, especially when they have diverse backgrounds. In the last years we have seen a growing interest in the use of gamification approaches in higher institutions. While most practices have been related to digital gaming approaches, there is a new trend: escape rooms. The intended output and proposed innovation is therefore the development and application of an escape room on energy transition to increase knowledge and raise motivation among our students by addressing both hard and soft skills in an innovative and original way. This project is interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary due to the complexity of the topic; it consists of three different stages, including evaluation, and requires the involvement of students and colleagues from the master program. We are confident that this proposed innovation can lead to an improvement, based on relevant literature and previous experiences in other institutions, and has the potential to be successfully implemented in other higher education institutions in The Netherlands.
In dit project doet Inholland samen met Nova College, MeerWaarde, Plangroep en de gemeente Haarlemmermeer verkennend participatief actieonderzoek naar een nieuwe preventieve werkwijze gericht op het bespreekbaar maken van schulden en stress onder jongeren tussen de 16 en 27 jaar. De schulden-en-stress-aanpak van MeerWaarde is niet eerder bij de doelgroep jongeren toegepast en vraagverlegenheid is niet eerder in dit verband onderzocht. Dit zijn vernieuwende aspecten in deze aanvraag. Vraagverlegenheid kan ertoe bijdragen dat jongeren niet over hun financiële problemen praten met anderen en schulden daardoor steeds hoger oplopen. Preventief werken wordt hierdoor bemoeilijkt. In dit project onderzoeken we op participatieve wijze hoe jongeren hun eigen vraagverlegenheid herkennen en erkennen als het gaat om het ervaren van geldstress, wat zij nodig hebben om hun hulpvraag aan anderen te articuleren en wat er nodig is om deze jongeren tijdig te ondersteunen. Dit levert nieuwe kennis op over de rol van vraagverlegenheid bij financiële problemen en biedt denkrichtingen voor nieuwe instrumenten en methodieken gericht op het bespreekbaar maken van geldstress bij jongeren. Met dit verkennend onderzoek bereiden we opschaling voor naar de regio’s Amsterdam en Rotterdam om die kennis, instrumenten en methodieken in een vervolgproject verder uit te werken.
