Actually Existing Vitality Rights: Resisting Neoliberal Affects at a Video Game Design Camp

Autor/inn/en	Robinson, Bradley; Wright, William Terrell
Titel	Actually Existing Vitality Rights: Resisting Neoliberal Affects at a Video Game Design Camp
Quelle	In: English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 22 (2023) 2, S.247-260 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1108/ETPC-08-2022-0104
Schlagwörter	Video Games; Camps; Photography; Teaching Methods; Neoliberalism; Computer Software; COVID-19; Pandemics; Educational Change; Distance Education; STEM Education; College Faculty; Graduate Students; Computer Simulation; Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Fotografie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsreform; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; STEM; Fakultät; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the power of affective pedagogies and playful literacies to resist neoliberal framings of video game play and design in educational contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Focusing on the Giga-Games Camp, a video game design camp for adolescents, the authors mobilize different methodological impulses across a number of different registers, using interview data to trace institutional arcs, focal frames from a GoPro camera to see vitality in action and descriptions of platform events to follow these lines through the shift to online instruction brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings: The authors narrate three transversal movements of the Giga-Games Camp to reveal how play-centered pedagogies can challenge the neoliberal tendency to assimilate young people's video gaming practices as a vehicle for future-proof science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning. Originality/value: The authors offer the concept of actually existing vitality rights to describe how attending seriously to vitality in learning spaces will often manifest organically in very real strategies to reimagine and restructure preexisting, neoliberally sedimented uses of space, institutional configurations and constellations of sociopolitical power. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01