Serious Play: Literacy, Learning and Digital Games (Digital Games, Simulations, and Play in Learning)

Serious Play is a comprehensive account of the possibilities and challenges of teaching and learning with digital games in primary and secondary schools. Based on an original research project, the book explores digital games’ capacity to engage and challenge, present complex representations and experiences, foster collaborative and deep learning and enable curricula that connect with young people today. These exciting approaches illuminate the role of context in gameplay as well as the links between digital culture, gameplay and identity in learners’ lives, and are applicable to research and practice at the leading edge of curriculum and literacy development.

Catherine Beavis is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and the Arts at Deakin University, Australia, and program leader for the Curriculum, Assessment, Pedagogy and Digital Learning program in REDI - Research for Educational Impact: Deakin University's Strategic Research Centre for research in Education.

Michael Dezuanni is Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Joanne O’Mara is Associate Professor of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia.