Using Lego ® Serious Play ® in Higher Education with Law Students: Encouraging Playfulness and Creativity within Library Workshops
Alan E. Wheeler · Legal Information Management · 2020
The following article began life as a ten-minute presentation titled ‘Building student engagement brick by brick; using Lego ® Serious Play ® to explore subject engagement in HE’, presented at BIALL's 2020 virtual conference on 12 June 2020. Since 2016 I have been incorporating Lego ® Serious Play ® (LSP) within my practice as an academic librarian at Middlesex University. This article will explore how I have embedded LSP into workshops with students and staff, the tactics employed to gain acceptance for using LSP within academic settings and offering some tentative predictions on whether playful approaches will be successful in the current Higher Education (HE) landscape, dominated as we currently are by virtual learning and screen technologies.