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Minds on Fire

How Role-Immersion Games Transform College

Mark C. Carnes

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$30.00 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674984097

Publication Date: 03/05/2018

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400 pages

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Mark C. Carnes is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University.

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In a two-part 2017 interview with the podcast Education Bookcast, listen to Mark Carnes discuss, in Part I, how Reacting to the Past classes are run—and their benefits to students compared to more typical instruction; and in Part II, the effects that Reacting to the Past, and role-play in general, have on the “self”
Via Barnard Magazine, take a deep look at one college class’s experience with an immersive Reacting to the Past activity, “The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.”
At the RTTP Youtube channel, view videos of students engaged in immersive roleplaying projects in the classroom—as well as interviews with educators about their experience using the curriculum
Read an excerpt from Minds on Fire courtesy of KQED’s MindShift
At the Chronicle of Higher Education, read Professor Carnes’s exploration of the controversial role of play in education
Read Carnes’s 2011 CHE essay on the origins of his Reacting to the Past curriculum
Also at CHE, read educator James Lang’s description of his own experience during a two-day Reacting to the Past exercise and investigation into the mechanics of teaching a Reacting game
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