Minds on fire how role-immersion games transform college

Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Mark Carnes says it is because students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play. He shows how month-long role-immersion games in the curriculum can channel those competitive impulses into transformative learning experiences, and how brick...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carnes, Mark C. 1950- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press 2014.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33625281*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Debate at dawn
  • "All classes are sorta boring"
  • Subversive play: the bane of higher education
  • Creating an academic subversive play world
  • Critical thinking and our selves
  • Overcoming the silence of the students
  • Learning by failing
  • Building community and global citizenship
  • Inculcating morality and empathy (!)
  • Teaching leadership through teamwork
  • Teaching the past by getting it wrong?
  • The strange world outside the box
  • Socrates at sunset
  • Appendix: List of reacting games.