Good Video Games and Good Learning (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

Brand: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

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UPC:
9780820497037
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
4/3/2007
Release Date:
3/26/2007
Author:
James Paul Gee
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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Product 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.