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Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy: 27 (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) - Hardcover

Gee, James Paul

 
9780820497341: Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy: 27 (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820497347 ISBN 13: 9780820497341
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2007

Synopsis

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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About the Author

The Author: James Paul Gee is the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University and has published widely in linguistics and education. Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990) was one of the founding documents in the formation of «New Literacies Studies». An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999) brings together his work on a methodology for studying communication in its cultural settings. His most recent books deal with video games, language and learning. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003) addresses why good video games produce better learning conditions than many of today's schools. Situated Language and Learning (2004) places video games within an overall theory of learning and literacy in relation to thinking about school reform. Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul (2006) shows how good video games combine pleasure and learning and have the capacity to empower people.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0820497347
ISBN 13 
9780820497341
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
194

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9780820497037: Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy: 27 (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

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ISBN 10:  0820497037 ISBN 13:  9780820497037
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2007
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