This article presents playfulness as an emerging approach to learning in higher education that emphasises the arts and humanities across disciplines. The article is based on a qualitative, hermeneutical literature review in light of educational culture in higher education. The literature review indicates that playful approaches to learning stand in opposition to educational cultures that focus on rapidness and student performance. However, an educational culture of play is about to establish itself, and this culture of play emphasises creativity in learning and human flourishing in education, perspectives that are connected to arts and humanities. The main findings cultures of time, performance and play lead to several questions about societal, institutional, and organisational educational culture, and regarding approaches to teaching, learning, humanity and society. The main contribution of this article is that a focus on playfulness offer the field of arts and humanities new possibilities in future education.

本文将趣味性作为一种新兴的高等教育学习方法，强调跨学科的艺术和人文学科。本文根据高等教育中的教育文化，基于定性的、解释性的文献综述。文献综述表明，有趣的学习方法与注重速度和学生表现的教育文化背道而驰。然而，一种游戏教育文化即将建立，这种游戏文化强调学习中的创造力和教育中的人类繁荣，以及与艺术和人文相关的观点。时间、表演和游戏文化的主要发现引出几个关于社会、制度和组织教育文化的问题，以及关于教学、学习、人性和社会的方法。本文的主要贡献在于，对趣味性的关注为艺术和人文领域提供了未来教育的新可能性。