Reflections on Playful Practices in Human Rights Education: Cooperative Play

Abstract

This work focuses on human rights education as a space for pedagogical innovation at the university. It presents part of the experiences lived in the course “Recreational Spaces for human rights education,” offered by IDELA to the university community. This course aims to generate a reflection on the importance of playing in human rights education in the university context. A descriptive approach and an analysis of some of the lived experiences were implemented. It is concluded that human rights education should be a process centered on innovative, experiential, and playful practices that go beyond traditional and magisterial proposals, in which students can create, participate, and learn values through participatory and socio-affective spaces in which human rights are recognized as practices based on a more supportive and respectful way of life.