simulating europe: choosing the right learning objectives for simulation games

Raiser, Simon; Schneider, Annegret; Warkalla, Björn

doi:10.1057/eps.2015.20

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“…Overall, simulation games can be a useful didactic method and approach to promote process-oriented action and a positive learner experience [17]. Several positive expectations are linked with simulation games [18][19][20]. Most importantly, they foster an understanding of the difficulties of (political) compromises and connect the problem to participants' everyday lives.…”

Section: The Simulation Game: a Possible Solution To Ease The Implementation Of The New Fertilizer Ordinancementioning

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Bringing Policy Decisions to the People—Education for Sustainable Development through a Digital Simulation Game

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After repeated warnings by the European Commission regarding high nitrate concentrations in German waters, in 2017, Germany implemented a new fertilizer application ordinance (FO) with stricter nitrate value limits. The new regulations have severely affected agricultural regions in Germany and could lead to a high number of job losses if farmers must conform to the new regulations and do not implement new production methods. Therefore, a simulation game was developed to educate farmers and residents about the new FO and to facilitate adaptation to the new environmentally friendly legislation. The aims of the newly developed simulation game are to educate residents and farmers in affected regions about the new FO and to develop new ideas on how to comply with the new regulations. The aims of the present study are, first, to research participants’ evaluation of the simulation game and, second, to assess the effect of the simulation game on subjective knowledge, internal efficacy, and attitude towards the new FO. This pre- and post-comparison design study was based on pre-test and post-test with participants in two games (N = 90). The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, multiple regression analyses, qualitative content analysis, and mean value comparisons. The simulation game had a positive effect on participants’ subjective knowledge (Cohen’s d 0.65) and internal efficacy (Cohen’s d 0.36), but it did not have an effect on their attitudes toward the new FO, and it was shown to slightly lower their interest in agriculture politics (Cohen’s d −0.33). The participants reported that the game made them more aware of both the difficulty and necessity of finding compromises in the field of agriculture politics. Overall, the simulation was rated very positively and was perceived as interesting and informative by the participants.

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Section: The Simulation Game: a Possible Solution To Ease The Implementation Of The New Fertilizer Ordinancementioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing Policy Decisions to the People—Education for Sustainable Development through a Digital Simulation Game

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“…Political science is more relevant if its graduates can successfully apply generic skills such as researching and systematizing material or preparing and implementing presentations and most relevant if graduates can use a set of discipline-specific skills, theories and methods in their professional life. Mechanisms for achieving professional relevance include career events and excursions to potential employers, programs or curricular elements on "applied politics" (Bacon 2018, 100-101) and "applied political research" as well as activities at the level of individual courses such the writing of policy-oriented texts (Pennock 2011;Smith 2016) and simulation games (Bridge/Radford 2014;Raiser et al 2015).…”

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Cui Bono Scientia Politica? A Multi-Dimensional Concept of Relevance and the Case of Political Science in Austria

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Eder²

2018

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Political scientists in many parts of the world have resumed the debate about the discipline's societal relevance in view of manifold political and social challenges. Unlike their international peers, political scientists in Austria have so far not undertaken a thorough reflection of the relevance that their work has beyond academia. Our special issue seeks to fill this gap in the self-reflection of political science in Austria by opening a debate about the conceptual, empirical, normative, and praxeological dimensions of (societal) relevance. This introductory article prepares the ground for the subsequent contributions to the special issue by giving a brief overview of the current debate about the relevance of political science, formulating the research questions that guide the special issue, and introducing a multi-dimensional concept of societal relevance. Building on the work of Van Aalsvoort (2004) and Stuckey et al. (2013), the article distinguishes between civic, professional, and political relevance of political science and discusses the discipline's historical development in Austria against the background of this conceptual framework.

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“…1 These building blocks apply invariably to all simulations. But, depending on where the simulation is placed on the continuum of complexity, they can become rather different in practical terms (for a similar approach concerning all active learning techniques, see Bonwell and Sutherland, 1996; and focusing on learning objectives in EU simulations, see Raiser et al, 2015).…”

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play it again, sam! teaching transferable skills through multiple repetitions of ‘simple’ simulations (with research benefits)

Gastinger

2017

Eur Polit Sci

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simulating europe: choosing the right learning objectives for simulation games

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 publications

Bringing Policy Decisions to the People—Education for Sustainable Development through a Digital Simulation Game

Bringing Policy Decisions to the People—Education for Sustainable Development through a Digital Simulation Game

Cui Bono Scientia Politica? A Multi-Dimensional Concept of Relevance and the Case of Political Science in Austria

play it again, sam! teaching transferable skills through multiple repetitions of ‘simple’ simulations (with research benefits)

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