Responsible Research and Innovation Book: Engaging research methods to explore FUN in Education 

1. CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
EXPLORING, UNDERSTANDING AND
COCREATING FUN IN LEARNING

2. ENGAGING METHODS TO EXPLORE FUN IN EDUCATION
Abstracts
30/ 09
chapter outline
400 words
s RUMPUS
Ale, Mimi, Rebecca & Kieron
PUBLISHER Ubiquity Press
RRI, Open science – Open License CC BY SA
BOOK

3. Responsible Research and Innovation Book:
Engaging research methods to explore FUN in Education
Edited by Alexandra Okada, Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Rebecca Fergurson and Kieron Sheehy
Ale is preparing a set of posts
with video-interview about
methods used by researchers to
explore engagement, enjoyment
and Fun in Education
Participants will be invited to
describe their
research exploring
”play/fun" and authoring their
own blogposts...(initial draft of a
chapter) for
comments/discussions
”Fun” interactive workshops
will be provided in events
about these methods to
generate questions, reflections
and discussions with fun.
After interactions in the
blog and events, authors
will edit their posts into a
chapter for researcher
practitioners (Peer
Reviewed).
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4. Responsible Research and Innovation Book:
Engaging research methods to explore FUN in Education
Drawing to explore childrens’ self-concept - Mimi Tatlow-Golden
Video-interview Post Events led by Author Autored Chapter
APPROACH

5. Fergurson
Sheehy
Okada
Tatlow-
Golden Childs
Balloon
Consensus
Coauthors participants
from
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Virtual
Reality
Big book
Dowdeswell
Huxley
Plowright-Pepper

6. Some Special OU guests
& External experts invited
Dancemotion
Photo-
elicitation
Play
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7. Synopsis
This ebook invites authors to discuss with readers about the value of
fun in education.
Authors will be introducing and interacting with readers through
engaging research methods that enable individuals, institutions,
cultures/societies, join and cocreate enjoyable experiences for
research and learning.
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8. • Uniquely examine fun in education from RRI perspective whose aim is
to identify societal needs to align research and innovation responsibly
and enjoyably.
• Identify learners’ challenges, needs and priorities – locally or globaly
with data and evidence to explore why fun in education is important.
• Describe influential/novel methods underpinned by relevant
principles, successful practices as well engaging procedures, tools and
scenarios.
• Discuss Interventions and findings with open data, enjoyable
approaches and useful recommendations.
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9. Guidelines
• Template for presenting an abstract
• Self-Assessment and peer-review
• Principles and actions…
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10. TITLE
Authors, affiliation, country
Issue/scenario with data (evidence)
Innovative method used
Literature; Principles/concepts
Purpose
Research Question
Methodology; procedures; tools
Participants
Findings successful practices and limitations
Discussion with recommendations
Template for presenting an abstract
What is the key
problem for using this
method / application?
Why Is your method/
design innovative?
Which principles
support the method?
What is the aim of
your study?
Why Fun?
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11. • What are the key theoretical ideas or concepts (including fun) that underpin your message?
• How does it relate to existing theoretical work in the field?
• How does it relate to empirical work in the field?
• How does it relate to policy or practice?
• What is distinctive about this work (in relation to fun)?
• So what? – why does it matter? Why is it an original contribution to knowledge?
Self-assessment & Peer-review...
Tips
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12. Object => the method;
Methodology=> approach for validating
the method (design/implement/refine)
• My claim is that ...
• My work is original/innovative because…
• My work is significant/responsible because…
• My work is rigorous/open because…
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Tips

13. Writing authoritatively
vs a tiresome necessity written as an afterthought
Tiny text – compress rhetorical act of argumentation into a
small textual space; but they are large in relation to the
work they can accomplish.
Kamler and Thomson, 2008 (pages 85-86) recommended
by Littleton’s workshop
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14. Six actions:
1. Locate – ‘mind the gap’/identifying your niche/ locating the paper in relation to
current debates in the field (originality); => relevant for local/global society
2. Focus – identify key issues/research questions being pursued/problems the paper
addresses;
3. Anchor – establish the basis for the argument by outlining the research, sample,
methods of analysis (rigour)
4. Report – summarise the major findings pertinent to the argument
5. Argue – open out the argument, pointing to the significance (the ‘So what? question)
of the findings; indicate a point of view/interpretation/ returning to
6. Support Fun – design refine and communicate the meaning of fun
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15. Schedule:
• 2021 August – Invitation
• 2021 September – Initial Blog posts created with videoclips
• 2021 October – workshops
• 2021 November – Full draft about the chapter
• 2021 December – Peer review
• 202 January – Final chapter
• 2022 February – Typesetting
• 2021 March – Approval
• 2022 April – Launch
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