num_pages: 194
description: 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.
language: English
title: Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy
titlecomplete: Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
genres: Academic, Education, Nonfiction, Essays, Research, Teaching, Video Games, Games
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers