Universität zu Köln

Seidel, Sebastian ORCID: 0000-0003-3508-2854, Bettinger, Patrick and Budke, Alexandra ORCID: 0000-0003-1063-8991 (2020). Representations and Concepts of Borders in Digital Strategy Games and Their Potential for Political Education in Geography Teaching. Educ. Sci., 10 (1). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2227-7102

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Abstract

In Germany, 93% of young people between the ages of 10 and 18 play video games daily. Political geography, in particular popular geopolitics, have found that video games can help to establish and develop people's understanding of geopolitics. Consequently, this affects geography education, providing both challenges and opportunities for teaching. Geography teaching is an integral part of political education as students need to understand how boundaries and territories create spaces with regards to social power and become the object of political conflict. Reflection plays a central role in understanding and deconstructing such spatial constructions. In this article, we examine representations and concepts of borders in digital strategy games and the perception and reflection of these by the players. The results provide an outlook on the potential and the challenges of digital strategy games for political education in geography lessons in secondary schools as well as for teacher training at universities. For this reason, possible approaches for education and training will be outlined on the basis of the results.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Seidel, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3508-2854 UNSPECIFIED Bettinger, Patrick UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Budke, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1063-8991 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-351413
DOI:	10.3390/educsci10010010
Journal or Publication Title:	Educ. Sci.
Volume:	10
Number:	1
Date:	2020
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2227-7102
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language POPULAR GEOPOLITICS; EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE; COMPUTER GAMES Multiple languages Education & Educational Research Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/35141