Building playful resilience in higher education: Learning by doing and doing by playing

Playful approaches include many benefits for higher education. Here, they denote elements of playful learning that invite students to engage with various challenges related imagination, innovation, and co-creation. As stated in earlier research, follows the constructivism approach seeking be active participants their process, tries offer them surmountable learn while being intrinsically motivated—through by doing . Again, experimentation uncertainty—through playing particular instances creative endeavors, joyful moments discovery possibilities a novel, but safe failure-free situation environment. This exploratory study presents new ideas on how methods, such as may used education contribute formation resilience through activation. To substantiate this argument, we propose are similar those context entrepreneurial aim support growth flexible, mindset among students. Our suggestions using focus particularly combination tactics, tools, tasks allow ideate, innovate, create solutions novel challenges. The contribution is linking previously unconnected areas education, approaches, resilience, entrepreneurialism achieved doing, playing.