Abstract
This paper will further discuss the need to incorporate creativity in university teaching practices based on playing as a didactic strategy. The above, by considering the challenges that when facing the post-conflict, higher education in Colombia is dealing with as mediated by the new technologies and the advances that the stimulation of creativity implies in the students of today. In this respect, this paper first details the impact the armed conflict has had in Colombian education and, later, elaborates on the relevance of bringing different teaching strategies associated with playing to help develop creativity and improve the teaching practices in higher education in Colombia.
Highlights
The signing of a peace agreement with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), is already an unobjectionable fact
It highlights the importance to look for innovative ways to bring students and knowledge together and, it argues for the need to implement new teaching strategies supported in the condition of mutability of the human being lying on creativity and playing
Through playing we show ourselves as we are, we show our fragility or tenacity, our honesty or our tricks
Summary
The signing of a peace agreement with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), is already an unobjectionable fact. It highlights the importance to look for innovative ways to bring students and knowledge together and, it argues for the need to implement new teaching strategies supported in the condition of mutability of the human being lying on creativity and playing The latter, in order to promote the integral development of the new type of students and, later, of the former fighters who will join civil life in the new postconflict scenario in Colombia. With this in mind, universities will have to innovate and start designing pedagogical strategies to teach the people whose lives are being mediated by the use of technology and some whose lives have revolved around the jungle and have experienced the circumstances of war where weapons have been their tools
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