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

by James Paul Gee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820497347
• ISBN13: 9780820497341
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"