Tag Archives: Pedagogy

Videogames as Critical Race Pedagogy

Posted 04 March 2011 | By | Categories: Pedagogy | 6 Comments

Education Beyond Edu-games Researching and designing educational videogames continues to be one of the most popular forms of research within the critical tendency of game studies. Without question, the push to leverage the strong and unique persuasive and educational aspects of games via the design of new games is a worthwhile endeavor. However, focusing on [...]

How I Use Leeroy Jenkins to Teach Race in Videogames

Posted 17 September 2009 | By | Categories: Pedagogy | 8 Comments

I think it is important for those of us in media studies, and not just with a game studies focus, to teach how to “read” and interpret videogames given their budding status as one of the dominant media forms of the near future. This is particularly important if you subscribe to McKenzie Wark’s central argument [...]