Serious Games for Global Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Müller
2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Sherry

Millions in taxpayer and foundation euros and dollars have been spent building and testing educational video games, games for health, and serious games. What have been the fruits of this frenzy of activity? What educational video game has had the reach and impact of Sesame Street or Blues Clues television shows? By comparison, the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) managed to get Sesame Street off the ground within a couple of years, writing the basic scientific literature on educational media design in the process. Not only is Sesame Street well known and proven, it laid the basis for every effective educational show to follow. This article explores the differences between the CTW scientific approach to educational media production and the mostly nonscientific approach consuming so many resources in the educational games, games for health, and serious games movements. Fundamental scientific questions that remain unanswered are outlined.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aarti Shyamsunder ◽  
Michael S. Fetzer ◽  
Wendy L. Bedwell ◽  
Ben Hawkes ◽  
Charles A. Handler ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandro Scielzo ◽  
Fleet Davis ◽  
Jennifer M. Riley ◽  
John Hyatt ◽  
Donald Lampton ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
pp. 444-457
Author(s):  
Lorena Milani

L'approccio che noi proponiamo alla questione della povertà educativa intreccia sia gli obiettivi dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (Onu, 2015) sia quella della Global Education (Council of Europe, 2019) e dei diritti dei minori dichiarati nella Convenzione sui diritti dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza (Onu, 1989). In questa prospettiva, indagheremo la questione della povertà educativa in termini non solo di mancanza di opportunità, di deprivazione e di qualità della vita, ma anche come deprivazione morale, di orientamenti e prospettive di vita, di qualità della proposta educativa e dei valori insiti in essa. Partendo dalla situazione attuale generata della pandemia del coronavirus, offriamo una lettura delle ricadute sulle povertà materiali e sulla povertà educativa, considerando anche le povertà altre. La prospettiva viene costruita attorno alla centralità dell'etica e all'ipotesi di un nuovo paradigma: il PEL (Prodotto Etico Lordo) cui è associata l'educazione alla sobrietà. In questa logica, la Global Education diviene approccio pedagogico per promuovere l'educazione alla cittadinanza globale per una vita degna e una dignità educativa


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hodkinson ◽  
Chandrika Devarakonda

This paper offers a critique of transnational aspects of ‘inclusion,’ one of those global education buzzwords that as Slee (2009) puts it, say everything but say nothing. It starts off by trying to compare Indian and English usages and attitudes at the level of teacher discourse, and notes the impossibility of any ‘authentic’ translation, given the very different cultural contexts and histories. In response to these divergences, the authors undertake a much more genealogical and ‘forensic’ examination of values associated with ‘inclusion,’ focussing especially on a key notion of ‘pity.’ The Eurocentric tradition is traced from its Platonic origins through what is claimed to be the ‘industrialization of pity’ and its rejection as a virtue in favour of more apparently egalitarian measures of fairness. The Indian tradition relates rather to religious traditions across a number of different belief systems, most of which centre on some version of a karmic notion of pity. The authors both criticise and reject ‘inclusion’ as a colonisation of the global and call for a new understanding of notions like ‘pity’ as affective commitment rather than ‘fair’ dispensation of equality.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
JianHua Yang ◽  
Zhao Kun ◽  
Min Yin

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