Persisting Inequalities: Gamification and Education

Seminar by Carol Stabile

Economists like Edward Castranova to game designers and academics like Jane McGonigal and Mary Flanders have been proposing that games are the panacea to a wide range of educational woes. This seminar will discuss the ways in which "play" and the reward structures of games are being conceptualized as neoliberal solutions to the effects of privatization and neoliberalism on public education.

Texts for "Persisting Inequalities"