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Good video games + good learning : collected essays on video games, learning, and literacy / James Paul Gee.

Title
Good video games + good learning : collected essays on video games, learning, and literacy / James Paul Gee.
Author
Gee, James Paul
Publication
New York : P. Lang, c2007.

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Description
vi, 194 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"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." --COVER.
Series Statement
New literacies and digital epistemologies ; v. 27
Uniform Title
New literacies and digital epistemologies ; v. 27.
Alternative Title
  • Good video games plus good learning
  • Good video games and good learning
Subject
  • Video games > Psychological aspects
  • Video games > Psychological aspects
  • Learning, Psychology of
  • Visual literacy
  • Video games and children
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Why video games are good for your soul : pleasure and learning -- Video games, violence, and effects : good and bad -- Notes on content and technological determinism -- Good video games, the human mind, and good learning -- Learning about learning from a video game : rise of nations -- Pleasure and "being a professional" : learning and video games -- Why study games now? Video games : a new art form -- Affinity spaces : from age of mythology to today's schools -- Reading, specialist language development, and video games -- Games and learning : issues, perils, and potentials.
ISBN
9780820497037 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006101455
OCLC
  • 77494426
  • SCSB-12915090
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library