Minds on Fire
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Minds on Fire

How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

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Minds on Fire

How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

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About This Book

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearIn Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have used a pedagogy called Reacting to the Past, which features month-long games set during the French Revolution, Galileo's trial, the partition of India, and dozens of other epochal moments in disciplines ranging from art history to the sciences. These games have spread to over three hundred campuses around the world, where many of their benefits defy expectations."[ Minds on Fire is] Carnes's beautifully written apologia for this fascinating and powerful approach to teaching and learning in higher education. If we are willing to open our minds and explore student-centered approaches like Reacting [to the Past], we might just find that the spark of student engagement we have been searching for in higher education's mythical past can catch fire in the classrooms of the present."
—James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education "This book is a highly engaging and inspirational study of a 'new' technique that just might change the way educators bring students to learning in the 21st century."
—D. D. Bouchard, Choice

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780674745346
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Higher Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Debate at Dawn
  8. Chapter 1: “All Classes Are Sorta Boring”
  9. Chapter 2: Subversive Play: The Bane of Higher Education
  10. Chapter 3: Creating an Academic Subversive Play World
  11. Chapter 4: Critical Thinking and Our Selves
  12. Chapter 5: Overcoming the Silence of the Students
  13. Chapter 6: Learning by Failing
  14. Chapter 7: Building Community and Global Citizenship
  15. Chapter 8: Inculcating Morality and Empathy (!)
  16. Chapter 9: Teaching Leadership through Teamwork
  17. Chapter 10: Teaching the Past by Getting It Wrong?
  18. Chapter 11: The Strange World outside the Box
  19. Socrates at Sunset
  20. Appendix: List of Reacting Games
  21. Notes
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Index