- Title
- Epistemic games & applied drama: converging conventions for serious play
- Creator
- Cameron, David; Carroll, John; Wotzko, Rebecca
- Relation
- 5th International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 2011. Proceedings of DiGRA 2011 Conference: Think Design Play (Hilversum, Netherlands 14-17 September, 2011)
- Relation
- http://www.digra.org:8080/Plone/dl/display_html?chid=http://www.digra.org:8080/Plone/dl/db/11307.56109.pdf
- Publisher
- DiGRA / Utrecht School of the Arts
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This paper describes a way to bridge the remaining conceptual gap between the conventions of digital games and those of non-theatrical drama forms, particularly when both fields are applied to non-entertainment settings. The approaches and literature surrounding both David Williamson Shaffer’s work in epistemic games and Dorothy Heathcote’s work in applied drama are compared. The teaching strategies in both approaches use a range of dramatic techniques that engage students in learning tasks which involve solving problems, and producing working content as if the students were professionals in a particular field of expertise. The similarities between the two pedagogies allow designers of serious digital games to borrow from frameworks in applied drama to further develop authentic learning experiences. A case study examines the application of these two pedagogies in the design of a Web-based game engine for the delivery of training scenarios.
- Subject
- digital games; epistemic games; serious games; applied drama; education; Mantle of the Expert
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923156
- Identifier
- uon:9664
- Language
- eng
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