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Minds on Fire Mark C. Carnes

Minds on Fire By Mark C. Carnes

Minds on Fire by Mark C. Carnes


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Why are so many students intellectually disengaged? Mark Carnes says it is because students are so deeply absorbed in competitive social play. He shows how month-long role-immersion games in the curriculum can channel those competitive impulses into transformative learning experiences, and how bricks-and-mortar colleges can set young minds on fire.

Minds on Fire Summary

Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College by Mark C. Carnes

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

In Minds on Fire, Mark C. Carnes shows how role-immersion games channel students' competitive (and sometimes mischievous) impulses into transformative learning experiences. His discussion is based on interviews with scores of students and faculty who have used a pedagogy called Reacting to the Past, which features month-long games set during the French Revolution, Galileo's trial, the partition of India, and dozens of other epochal moments in disciplines ranging from art history to the sciences. These games have spread to over three hundred campuses around the world, where many of their benefits defy expectations.

[Minds on Fire is] Carnes's beautifully written apologia for this fascinating and powerful approach to teaching and learning in higher education. If we are willing to open our minds and explore student-centered approaches like Reacting [to the Past], we might just find that the spark of student engagement we have been searching for in higher education's mythical past can catch fire in the classrooms of the present.
-James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education

This book is a highly engaging and inspirational study of a 'new' technique that just might change the way educators bring students to learning in the 21st century.
-D. D. Bouchard, Choice

About Mark C. Carnes

Mark C. Carnes is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University.

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GOR013345406
9780674984097
0674984099
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College by Mark C. Carnes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Harvard University Press
20180305
400
Nominated for Frederic W. Ness Book Award 2016
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