The Work of Play : Meaning-Making in Videogames Hardback
by Aaron Chia Yuan Hung
Part of the New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies series
Hardback
Description
Some educational researchers claim that videogames can energize learning in both traditional and non-traditional contexts; cultivate skills more useful to a changing economy; and present information in ways more appealing to students.
The notion of "serious games" dates back as early as the 1950s, but so far has failed to make a significant lasting impact on what goes on in education.
The Work of Play is an attempt to describe such learning on the micro-level, capturing the moment-by-moment interactions between players and showing how meanings are shaped over time.
It builds on anthropological methods, including ethnography and conversation analysis, to re-construct how situated learning occurs and how players' perception of the game evolves as their experiences with the game change.
This is a valuable book for researchers and for classroom use at the upper-division undergraduate and graduate levels.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:23/06/2011
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- ISBN:9781433109065
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:23/06/2011
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- ISBN:9781433109065
