Videogames and Education

ISBN-13: 9780765619969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 248 str.

Harry J. Brown

Opis

Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. It searches for specific ways to interpret video games in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. The author shows how video games have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. He discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding video games, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and video games cultural phenomenon.

Spis treści

During much of the 1980s, US wage growth has been unexpectedly slow in the face of relatively low unemployment rates and high capacity utilization rates. This collection of papers resulting from the Wage Structure Conference held by the Federal Research Bank of Cleveland, November 1989, helps explain labour market behaviour in that period. The contributors - academic and research economists in labour economics - provide a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the wage-setting process in the US labour market.

O autorze

Harry J. Brown is Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he teaches courses in American literature and new media. He completed his doctorate at Lehigh University in 2003. His first book, Injun Joe’s Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing, was published in 2004. He resides in Greencastle with his wife and two daughters.