The Minecraft Centered Teaching Approach
The Minecraft Centered Teaching Approach
By Chris Stuart
June 1, 2020
My dissertation proposes the ludic framework for learning as an innovative pedagogical model that privileges play, possibility, failure, and social affinity as states of being and positions for learning.
The ludic framework works through rhetorics of play as a frame of reference; rhetorics of possibility and invention as a means of production; the acceptance of transformative failure; and engages with digital communities to further knowledge through social affinity while being grounded in constructionist learning theories.
The principles that facilitate this are: curiosity, play, flexibility, metacognition, collaboration, invention, persistence, and creativity.
To demonstrate this, the dissertation has two case studies: a semester project that explains the need and procedures for teaching technologies in a workflow and a three-dimensional representation of the research in Minecraft: Education Edition.
For more information on the Minecraft project, you can go here: minecraft.christuart.com.
For a further explanation of the dissertation, you can watch my online defense here: HERE.
Chris Stuart