Good Video Games and Good Learning - Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)


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.

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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.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Peter Lang Publishing

Country of origin

United States

Series

New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, 27

Release date

March 2007

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

Authors

Dimensions

230 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover - Cloth over boards

Pages

194

Edition

2nd Revised edition

ISBN-13

978-0-8204-9734-1

Barcode

9780820497341

Categories

LSN

0-8204-9734-7



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