Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy

James Paul Gee

Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
30 March 2007
Pages
194
ISBN
9780820497341

Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy

James Paul Gee

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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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