administrative officials?

They just want to play

Created: 11/27/2022, 11:10 am

Administrative law can be fun: Ngoc-Nhi Phan and her "Communopoly".

© Miesbach District Office

Internalize dry learning material in a playful way.

Even when it comes to something as bulky as local law.

Ngoc-Nhi Phan proves that.

District – The civil servant candidate developed the game “Kommunopoly” as a project work at the district office in Miesbach – based on the famous parlor game “Monopoly”.

The training to become a qualified administrative specialist thus has an entertaining component.

The game is intended to increase the learning motivation of prospective administrators

Can the mayor express his personal opinion?

What is the mirror image requirement?

What is special about the Audit Committee?

Phan came up with these and similar questions for the fields of action.

Questions that keep the 30-year-old busy during her dual studies at the public service university in Hof and at the district office in Miesbach.

Learning is not difficult for her, as stated in a press release from the district office.

However, when the project work was due, the preliminary stage for the diploma thesis, she wanted to make the legal subject matter more tangible.

Phan: "Sometimes studying is already dry, and I just wanted to increase the motivation to learn with fun." And that's how the idea for the parlor game came to her.

That's how it is in the office: Whoever has a lot of notices wins

Her lecturer was immediately enthusiastic about the idea.

The 30-year-old from Straubing was able to live out her creative talent.

For example, the starting space is called “clock in”, and if the player comes to an event space, he is confronted with administrative actions.

"Hacker attack - you lose a notice", it says, or also: "Fine notice - you receive a notice".

Decisions are point tiles, and whoever has the most points at the end wins.

On action fields: Oh dear, the citizen wants to know something

Questions from citizens must be answered or official acts carried out in action fields: What is the preparation of a budget statute and how is it to be carried out?

Or: What happens if the public has been wrongly excluded from a municipal council meeting?

Topics that she will also have to work on later in public service.

Phan has incorporated many elements of local law into her game and lovingly implemented them with playing cards, letters and figures.

In addition, there were ten pages of written project work in which she worked out the solutions.

There is also one goal: closing time

Your university has already mentioned Phan's game as a positive example in its newsletter.

"The learning effect was simply higher with such a game," stated the student, who received 14 points for her work.

Of course, the game can easily be expanded to include other areas of law: private law, construction law, security law.

But it should stay with the target field: "End of work".