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Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul - Pleasure and Learning (Paperback)
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Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul - Pleasure and Learning (Paperback)
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Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul is about pleasure and
learning. Good video games allow people to create their own
'music', to compose a symphony from their own actions, decisions,
movements, and feelings. They allow people to become 'pros', to
feel and act like an expert soldier, city planner, world builder,
thief, tough guy, wizard and a myriad of other things. They allow
people to create order out of complexity, to gain and feel mastery,
and to create new autobiographies, careers and histories. In his
earlier book, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and
Literacy, James Paul Gee offered thirty-six reasons why good video
games create better learning conditions than many of today's
schools. In this new book, built entirely around games and game
play, he shows how good video games marry pleasure and learning
and, at the same time, have the potential to empower people. James
Paul Gee is the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of the
acclaimed What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and
Literacy and the more recent Situated Language and Learning: A
Critique of Traditional Schooling, both of which deal with video
games and their implications for learning in the modern world.
General
Imprint: |
Common Ground Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2006 |
First published: |
December 2006 |
Authors: |
James Paul Gee
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
130 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-86335-574-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Computing & IT >
Computer software packages >
Computer games
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LSN: |
1-86335-574-X |
Barcode: |
9781863355742 |
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