Do computer games enhance learning about conflicts? A cross-national inquiry into proximate and distant scenarios in Global Conflicts

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Highlights:

• The study used the Israeli–Palestinian game and the Guatemalan civil war game.

• Israeli, Guatemalan and Palestinian undergraduate students participated in the study.

• All participants acquired knowledge about proximate conflicts.

• All participants changed their attitudes about distant conflicts.

• Israelis and Palestinians changed their attitudes about proximate conflicts.

摘要

•The study used the Israeli–Palestinian game and the Guatemalan civil war game.•Israeli, Guatemalan and Palestinian undergraduate students participated in the study.•All participants acquired knowledge about proximate conflicts.•All participants changed their attitudes about distant conflicts.•Israelis and Palestinians changed their attitudes about proximate conflicts.

论文关键词:Global Conflicts,Israeli–Palestinian conflict,Guatemalan civil war,Active learning,Knowledge acquisition from games,Attitude change

论文评审过程:Available online 16 September 2014, Version of Record 8 August 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.08.008