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Civics, Gaming, and the Commons

This past weekend, we inaugurated a new competition soliciting “civic games.” Hopefully it will become an annual contest, but for now the most vexing question coming from game designers is: “What makes a game civic?” Our definition of civics offers little help: we argue that civics is an expansive conception of politics, understood as a response… Continue reading Civics, Gaming, and the Commons

Published February 21, 2017
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Apocalypse World, board games, civic education, civic engagement, civic games, D&D, Elinor Ostrom, games, Monopoly, role-playing games, RPGs

Should Public Civic Education Be Descriptive or Normative?

What should schools do about the fact that politicians are frequently both wrong and immoral in ways that violate educational norms? How can civics education be civil if civic engagement rarely is?

Published May 9, 2016
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged children, civic education, civic engagement, civics, civility, Donald Trumo, education, Jonathan Zimmerman, Peter Levine, students

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