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Serious Games

Author(s) : Donald R. Jansiewicz
Editor : Canfield Press
Publication date : 01-01-1973
Language : english

This book explains how to play a playful simulation of the inner US political system. It details the game rules, and how to play it with students, the game requiring only pens, paper, and several human players. Despite its age, this Serious Game is still used nowadays in Education, thanks to several updates since 2004. Its author, Donal Jansiewicz, chose to kept the game in a "non-digital" format, as he thinks that only human interactions are able to simulate the complexity of a political system. A scientific study, on the use of the latest version of this game in classroom, has shown that it was able to improve the comprehension of the inner US political system works with students attending to an "Introduction to US politics" course.