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Following a talk we gave at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, we were invited to run a carbon trading game with a lecture room full of students studying sociology and social policy. |
Despite the lecture room not being ideal for setting up manufacturing, the students quickly got going with production, although Brazil decided to set up office some way round the world from their geographical location. Negotiations quickly heated up and reverted to Cantonese medium. This allowed the local students to haggle very quickly and at high volume, although unfortunately the international students couldn’t participate with it and had to devote their efforts to manufacturing and logistics. One very interesting comment from the lecturer, Dr Lis Ku, was that students behaved very differently in the game, adopting widely perceived characteristics of the country they were playing for. It’s a feature of the game we’d like to look into in some more detail. Lis has offered to assist with a study of the efficacy of game playing in delivering environmental education in collaboration with the University of Plymouth, UK.
Big thanks to Janice Dy for her expert help at the World Bank computer.
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