%0 Journal Article %1 Barab2009 %A Barab, S. A. %A Gresalfi, M. %A Arici, A. %D 2009 %J Educational Leadership %K design education games haifa-games-course learning questatlantis %N 1 %P 76-80 %T Transformational Play: Why Educators Should Care about Games %V 67 %X Transformational play as a theory has emerged through our design and research on games for learning. The idea of transformational play highlights relations among the three interconnected elements of person, content, and context. Specifically, transformational play involves positioning students as empowered actors who must understand and enlist academic content in order to effectively transform problematic scenarios. In this mansucript, written for K-12 teachers, we argue that, more than sugar-coating content to coerce disempowered students into caring about disciplinary knowledge, games can establish worlds where children are transformed into empowered scientists, doctors, reporters, and mathematicians who have to understand disciplinary content to accomplish desired ends.

@article{Barab2009, abstract = {Transformational play as a theory has emerged through our design and research on games for learning. The idea of transformational play highlights relations among the three interconnected elements of person, content, and context. Specifically, transformational play involves positioning students as empowered actors who must understand and enlist academic content in order to effectively transform problematic scenarios. In this mansucript, written for K-12 teachers, we argue that, more than sugar-coating content to coerce disempowered students into caring about disciplinary knowledge, games can establish worlds where children are transformed into empowered scientists, doctors, reporters, and mathematicians who have to understand disciplinary content to accomplish desired ends.}, added-at = {2010-09-08T15:18:36.000+0200}, author = {Barab, S. A. and Gresalfi, M. and Arici, A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/242dfb3b1968abc6a986e993d96aebd47/yish}, interhash = {07d1b6f1284711169ce50ef59e4ea275}, intrahash = {42dfb3b1968abc6a986e993d96aebd47}, journal = {Educational Leadership}, keywords = {design education games haifa-games-course learning questatlantis}, number = 1, pages = {76-80}, timestamp = {2010-09-08T15:18:36.000+0200}, title = {Transformational Play: Why Educators Should Care about Games}, volume = 67, year = 2009 }