Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Attributes of Play in Adult Learning- CHAPTER 2. A Framework for Playful Pedagogy in Higher Education- SECTION 1.Playful Pedagogy across Higher Education Curricula- CHAPTER 3.Play it, Be it: The Importance of the Ludic for Academic Staff -- CHAPTER 4: “Mantle of the Expert Approach” to Center Play in Adult Education -- CHAPTER 5: Playful Approaches to Asynchronous Learning -- CHAPTER 6: Building a Safe Space: Community as the Fundamental Grounding of Effective Play in Higher Education -- CHAPTER 7: Rituals, Protocols, and Activities for Playful Pedagogy in Higher Education -- CHAPTER 8: Rehearsing for Change: Educational Development for Liberation - or, Why Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Needs Play -- SECTION 2: Playful Pedagogy in Higher Education Discipline Areas -- CHAPTER 9: Playful Pedagogy in Nursing Education in the Time of COVID -- CHAPTER 10: The Lesson of Jan Karski: Channeling the Viscerality of Performance for Play and Practice in the Classroom -- CHAPTER 11: Perspective Taking, Empathy Development, and Conflict Resolution with the Israel-Palestine Conflict -- CHAPTER 12: Student Choice and Voice: Playing through Teacher Preparation -- CHAPTER 13: The Art of Play in Language Acquisition -- CHAPTER 14: A Pedagogy of Play(s) -- CHAPTER 15: Take a Stand: Engaging Teacher Education Students in the Physicality of Learning -- CHAPTER 16: Friends, Readers, Playfellows, lend us your ears - Drama in the classroom in higher education -- CHAPTER 17: Explorers + Artists: Semester-Long Narrative Games in Higher Education -- CHAPTER 18: Playful Strategies to Engage STEM Students in Learning Qualitative Methods -- CHAPTER 19: Playful Pedagogy in Counselor Education -- CHAPTER 20: Can we play in engineering education? -- CHAPTER 21: Learning and Games: Practical Implications of the Intersection Between Gamification and Learning Science in the Foreign Language Classroom -- CONCLUSION: Implications and Applications.

This collection provides a wide array of concrete and inspiring "playful" approaches to teaching in a range of higher education contexts and discipline areas, grounded in the learning sciences and within a future-oriented revisioning of the university learning environment. Within the broad area of active learning strategies, this text offers a curated collection of creative innovations such as game-based learning, gamification of courses, escape rooms, semester-long quests, dramatic role-plays, artistic endeavors and more. Containing descriptive and impact research that evidences the power of playful pedagogy, this text will offer a range of novel, transferable and usable materials for readers to apply in their lecture halls and classrooms tomorrow. “Playful Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a thoughtful consideration of the potential of play in universities, exemplified with a wide-ranging series of examples of playful learning in the higher education classroom, providing a wealth of practical tips and guidance for teachers who might be considering the potential of playful methods.” Professor Nic Whitton, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.