The Significance of an Educational Game in Teaching Politology

Game-based learning is being increasingly used in teaching humanities. In teaching politology, it seems to bring the most effective results. Through educational games, learners can fully experience modeling particular situations in the job of a would-be political technologist, which would guarantee...

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Published inInternational education studies Vol. 8; no. 8; pp. 174 - 182
Main Authors Dvorkovaya, Marina Vasilievna, Kurenkova, Evgeniya Alekseevna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canadian Center of Science and Education 28.07.2015
Subjects
Alignment (Education)
Crisis Management
Educational Games
Foreign Countries
Interaction
Policy
Policy Formation
Political Science
Problem Solving
Russia
Teaching Methods
Russia
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Summary:Game-based learning is being increasingly used in teaching humanities. In teaching politology, it seems to bring the most effective results. Through educational games, learners can fully experience modeling particular situations in the job of a would-be political technologist, which would guarantee training professional politologists with maximum effectiveness. Contemporary environment demands the masterly possession of the gaming methodology, as a fundamental one to instilling into a future politician or politologist such qualities as independent thinking, the fast discovery of the optimal solution to a problem, being stress-resistant and preserving the ability to analyze.
ISSN:1913-9020
DOI:10.5539/ies.v8n8p174