C&T Colloquium: An Archaeology of Knowledge about Video Games, Learning & School, with Luke Forshaw
- 305 Russell
- 3/12/2013, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- http://library.tc.columbia.edu/
Video
games have been viewed as a useful methodological component of curriculum and
teaching for several years. Many educators and educational researchers are
still struggling to locate the "function" of video games as an
educative tool. Some discourses of games and learning position video games as
behavioral training devices; useful for the "good" of encouraging and
corralling socially desirably skills and behaviors. Others see games in a more
constructivist light, as texts for shared exploration and meaning making.
Join Luke Forshaw,
current doctoral student in the department of Curriculum and Teaching, in his
exploration of these discursive fields and his attempt to as Maxine Greene
states, "Move beyond the sense of the given, toward possibility--not
predictability, but possibility", as he shares his dissertation work of
generating self-reflexive narratives of children engaged in video game play.
This talk is designed to both engage with the ideas described above, as well as
provide an inside look into the thought processes involved in crafting a
dissertation that draws on a number of post-structural theorists as a means to
provoke new discursive possibilities.
Luke Forshaw has been a doctoral student in the department of Curriculum and
Teaching starting in 2006, after completing his MA in C&T at Teachers
College in 2005. In addition to his academic work, Luke is an active
professional practitioner. He has previously taught third grade, served as a
K-12 technology integration coach and coordinator, and elementary assistant
principal. Currently, Luke serves as principal of Ox Ridge Elementary School in
Darien, CT. In addition to his academic and professional work, Luke serves on
the board of directors as board vice president and director of program
development for an emerging non-profit organization serving the greater
Newtown, CT area.
Persons interested in attending may rsvp by Friday, March 9th.
Where: 305 Russell
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