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Jeu et réalité, l'espace potentiel (Book reference)

A psychological essay written by the famous  pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donal Winicott who, starting from his theoretical concept of "transitional objects" analyses the topic of play and games. French translation of an English-written book titled "Playing and Reality" first published in 1971.  

Keywords : psychology

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The New Alexandria Simulation: A Serious Game of State and Local Politics (Book reference)

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 politi [...]

Keywords : serious game, politics, paper, simulation

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