Publication details
Challenges for Student´s Skills and Attitudes within Social Studies Conventional Simulation Games
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | conventional simulation games; Social Studies; skills; attitudes; competencies |
| Description | The paper promotes conventional simulation games in civics curriculum as for their potential to alter attitudes. The author presents the results of a pilot study within a doctoral thesis done at Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic together with the outlines for the research of the effectiveness of simulation game on students´ attitudes towards the poor.It also highlights the complex process of skills development within the conventional educational simulation games regarding the educational outcomes of secondary school students. The social and ethical issues are discussed together with the importance of a role-play in simulation games as for the possibility to gain empathy to individuals whose roles were played during the simulation. |