Digital Entertainment Gaming as a Site for (Informal) Historical Learning?: A Reflection on Possibilities and Limitations

Pieter van den Heede

Digital Entertainment Gaming as a Site for (Informal) Historical Learning? A Reflection on Possibilities and Limitations

Department of History

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Abstract

Over the past few decades, digital entertainment gaming has become very popular among a global audience of players, including a significant number of school-aged young adults. Some of the most popular digital entertainment games offer a (fictionalized) representation of historical events. This chapter offers a reflection on how digital entertainment gaming can be adopted to advance historical learning and the development of processual historical thinking skills. I do so by analyzing historical digital games as cultural artefacts embedded in a broader digitized media ecology, and digital games as integrated into formal school history curricula.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	History Education in the Digital Age
Editors	Mario Carretero, Maria Cantabrana, Cristian Parellada
Chapter	9
Pages	165-180
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-10743-6
Publication status	Published - 4 Oct 2022

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10743-6_9

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Videojuegos y Aprendizaje Informal de Historia: Possibilidades y Limitaciones
Van den Heede, P., 2023, Enseñar historia en la era digital. Buenos Aires, p. 165-190 26 p.
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2 Invited talk

Game Depictions of the Past: World War II in Digital Games
Van den Heede, P. (Speaker)
28 Mar 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic
Engaging with WWII and the Holocaust via Gaming: Analytical Perspectives on Design and Reception
Van den Heede, P. (Speaker)
28 Feb 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Academic

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Digital Entertainment Gaming as a Site for (Informal) Historical Learning? A Reflection on Possibilities and Limitations

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Videojuegos y Aprendizaje Informal de Historia: Possibilidades y Limitaciones

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Game Depictions of the Past: World War II in Digital Games

Engaging with WWII and the Holocaust via Gaming: Analytical Perspectives on Design and Reception

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