CALL FOR PAPERS:  

International Perspectives on Digital Games and Inclusion

This special issue seeks to bring together global insights into current developments at the nexus of digital gaming and inclusion in education and beyond. Different educational foci and different stages of game design, development and implementation are welcome.

 

Possible topics include:

  1. Stages of game design, development and implementation of digital games or platforms through participatory means and by involving potential user-groups beyond the mainstream.

  2. Contents or types of games focusing on topics related to social inclusion, e.g. Pervasive, Serious, Meaningful or Applied Games focusing on specific excluded groups or targeting social inclusion in education. 

  3. Intentions of games to enhance understandings of and also develop capabilities for the realisation, or promotion of social inclusion. 

  4. Research on games focusing on the prevention of racism, sexism, ableism, fundamentalism, lookism, voyeurism, etc. is welcome. 

  5. Accessible and inclusive layouts of games enabling the participation of non-mainstream gamers and also stimulating different levels of knowledge and competences. 

  6. Research on the use of digital games in education to enable inclusion. 

A wide variety of perspectives both in terms of gamers and content, including (among others) people with disabilities, people with migration or refugee background, cross-generational groups, and LGBTIQs are welcome, as we understand inclusion as a broad concept. 

 

We welcome both empirical and theoretical approaches from different disciplines and locations, and especially want to emphasize participatory approaches, also in the dissemination of games. 

 

Deadline for abstracts: April 21, 2020

Max. 500 words incl. references (mandatory)

Please send your abstract to: inclusiond97@univie.ac.at

Notification: May 15, 2020

Full papers: September 30, 2020

Guest Editors:

Prof. Elena Makarova, Head of Education, University of Basel

Prof. Gertraud Kremsner, Inclusive Pedagogy, University of Leipzig

Prof. Michelle Proyer, Inclusive Pedagogy, University of Vienna

Dr. Alexander Schmoelz, Austrian Institute for  Research on VET