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This volume examines the claim that computer games can provide better literacy and learning environments than schools. Using case-studies in the US at the beginning of the twenty-first century and the words and observations of individual gamers, the book offers historical and cultural analyses of their literacy development, practices and values.

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Author:   G. Hawisher ,  C. Selfe ,  C. Selfe
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781403972200

ISBN 10:   1403972206
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   06 June 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I:GAMING AND LITERACY Computer Gaming as Literacy Gaming as Literacy: Grow as You Go Gaming, Class, Culture, and Literacy Learning Found in Translation: Cultural Literacy, Language Acquisition, and Narrative Comprehension in the Advanced Gamer PART II: GAMING AND DIFFERENCE Racing Toward Representation: An Understanding of Racial Representation in Video Games Taking Flight: Learning Difference Meets Gaming Literacies Queer Role Playing: Gaming and Sexual Literacy The Social Dimensions of Gaming Gaming and Narrative Gaming, Agency, and Imagination: Locating Gaming within a Larger Constellation of Literacies Aimed at Rewriting the World Reading Popular Culture through Video Games: One Gamer's View of His Learning and Literacy with Video Games Gaming, Literacy, and Family PART III: GAMING AND GENDER Gaming, Gender, and Literate Practices Game Playing Girls Relationship Gaming and Identity: Stephanie and Josh Text-Based Gaming PART IV: GAMING ACCROSS TIME Caucus Race: Three Generations Think About Books, Games, and Lewis Carroll Dungeons, Dragons, and Discretion: A Gateway to Gaming, Technology, and Literacy Gaming and Spirituality

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CYNTHIA L. SELFE is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English Department at The Ohio State University, USA. GAIL E. HAWISHER is University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar and Founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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