Pleiade: A Playful and Participatory Approach to Teacher Professional Development on Social Inclusion

In line with current research results in Teachers' Professional Development (TPD), Learning Design (LD), Collaborative Learning (CL), inclusive teaching and gamifica-tion, this paper puts forward a proposal for an approach to TPD whereby: (a) TPD relies on long-term collaborative activities to trigger self- and co-regulated learning and reflection on practice; (b) LD and teachers' participatory practices are at the core of teachers' professional growth and hopefully trigger the formation of a community of practice; (c) teachers' engagement in the learning community is fostered through teacher appropriate gamification. The TPD approach is currently being implemented in an Erasmus Plus project called PLayful Environment for Inclusive leArning Design in Europe (PLEIADE; https://pleiade-project.eu/) and aims to support teachers belonging to four different European Countries in the design and systematical integration of inclusive practices in their work. The aim is to demonstrate how such an approach can make a differ-ence in teachers' practices.