Playing the Hidden Curriculum
This project develops a toolbox to help unpack, expose, materialize, and (where needed) challenge the hidden curriculum (HC). This exposition and challenging of the HC will foster education that no longer disadvantages students for their lacking familiarity with prevalent university norms and formalizes socialization processes that have thus far remained mostly implicit.
The project departs from the innovative proposition that conceptualizing the HC as a game (or playful exercise) invites its players to bring their personal lives into the learning activity and materializes its socio-cultural norms as explicit and negotiable rules.
Funded PhD position: Playing the Hidden Curriculum
Connected to our project Playing the Hidden Curriculum, we’re recruiting a fully funded PhD student at Utrecht University/University Medical Center Utrecht. The PhD will be conducting research into the “hidden curriculum” prevalent at Utrecht University, using games and play as heuristic to explore the hidden curriculum’s goals and rules (i.e., prevalent norms, social and institutional
Game Research @ DiGRA 2024
The yearly international confernce of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) was held in Guadalajara, Mexico from 1-5 July, and members from the Utrecht Center for Game Research were present to present their current work.
Playing the Hidden Curriculum
Playing the Hidden Curriculum: Exposing, materializing and questioning the unwritten rules of higher education is a research project that aims to adress the unwritten social and cultural rules in education, so that the UU will foster its education in a more social and inclusive way.
History of Game Research at Utrecht University
An overview of key moments in the history of game research at Utrecht University.