History of Play in Education
Published October 19th, 2009
Category Research
By Tsu Ting Huang and Jan L Plass
Topics history of play, play, Salen, Zimmerman,
Game designers, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, describe the relationship between game and play as mutually subordinate (2004). Engaging in games is a kind of playful activity. Play, on the other hand, is one major element that constitutes a game. To create an effective educational game, understanding the concepts of play in education is important. G4LI thus creates an annotated bibliography, collecting various educators’ and psychologists’ ideas of play throughout history. The goal is to find out how play is related to education and human developments. The results can be adopted in the educational game design in later phases of research.
Following is a summary of the annotated bibliography. It is sorted by how play is related with education to distinguish various scholars’ points of view.
