'Turning around' to the affordances of digital games: English curriculum and students' lifeworlds Beavis, Catherine, Walsh, Christopher, Bradford, Clare, O'Mara, Joanne, Apperley, Thomas and Gutierrez, Amanda 2015, 'Turning around' to the affordances of digital games: English curriculum and students' lifeworlds, English in Australia, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 30-40. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads bradford-turningaround-2015.pdf Published version application/pdf 3.03MB 76 Title 'Turning around' to the affordances of digital games: English curriculum and students' lifeworlds Author(s) Beavis, Catherine orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-0309 Walsh, Christopher Bradford, Clare orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-540X O'Mara, Joanne orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-1125 Apperley, Thomas Gutierrez, Amanda Journal name English in Australia Volume number 50 Issue number 2 Start page 30 End page 40 Total pages 11 Publisher Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2015-12-01 ISSN 0155-2147 Keyword(s) English curriculum Literacy Digital games student engagement Summary The need for English and literacy curriculum to connect with young people's lifeworlds to build bridges and frames of reference that connect traditional English curriculum with digital texts and literacies, are increasing priorities in curriculum frameworks in Australia and elsewhere. This paper reports on a project in which the authors worked with teachers and students in five secondary schools to research the ways in which digital games might be incorporated into the English curriculum. Central to this endeavour was 'turning around' to the affordances of digital games and their paratexts to understand how they can be understood as text and action. Drawing on classroom observations and literature in Games Studies and English curriculum we present a timely model and innovative heuristic that we argue facilitates teachers incorporating digital games into their English classrooms. We illustrate how each assists teachers in 'turning around' to digital games to make their English classrooms more relevant to students' lifeworlds. Language eng Field of Research 1302 Curriculum And Pedagogy Socio Economic Objective 930201 Pedagogy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2015, Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30080156 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Education Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 08 Dec 2015, 16:50:18 EST Wed, 09 Dec 2015, 04:03:53 EST Thu, 10 Dec 2015, 05:13:58 EST Thu, 10 Dec 2015, 12:25:14 EST Thu, 17 Dec 2015, 07:36:19 EST Thu, 17 Dec 2015, 07:45:39 EST Thu, 28 Jan 2016, 11:25:24 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 10:54:09 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:49:30 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 2 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 231 Abstract Views, 77 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 08 Dec 2015, 16:50:18 EST

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