Good Video Games and Good Learning

Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy

von James Paul Gee

194 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book discusses a broad range of topics concerning video games, learning and literacy. These include the ways games can marry pleasure, learning and mastery through the sense of ownership, agency and control players enjoy when gaming, as well as controversial issues surrounding games. The book explores relationships between values, identity, content and learning, and focuses on how to understand and explain many young people’s differential experiences of learning in gaming and schooling respectively.

• Reihe: New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780820497341
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.2007
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York