Good Video Games + Good Learning

Overview

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.

Details

Publisher

Peter Lang

Published

2007

Pages

194

Language

EN

Categories

Education / General, Education / Educational Psychology, Education / Teaching / General, Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, Education / Learning Styles, Games & Activities / Video & Electronic, Games & Activities / Video & Mobile, Language Arts & Disciplines / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy, Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference

ISBN-13

9780820497037