Sasha Barab is a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He also co-founded and serves as the executive director of the Center for Games and Impact. Professor Barab is an internationally recognized learning scientist who holds the Pinnacle West Chair of Education, and who has researched, designed, and published extensively on the challenges and opportunities of using games for impact. His research has resulted in numerous grants, dozens of articles, and multiple chapters in edited books, which investigate knowing and learning in its material, social, and cultural context. Leveraging design-based and impact-based research methodologies, his work focuses the design and research of game-infused learning environments to support a more knowledgeable, compassionate, and committed citizenship.
Beyond a social change agenda, the intent of this research is to develop rigorous claims about how people learn that have significant practical, pedagogical, and theoretical implications. Central to this work has been understanding the value of transformational play . Students who play transformationally become agents-of-change who use real-world knowledge, skills, and concepts to make sense of a situation and then make choices that actually transform the play space and themselves; creating a place in which what you know is directly related to what you are able to do and, ultimately, who you become .
Barab, S.A., Pettyjohn, P., Gresalfi, M., Volk, C., & Solomou, M. (2012). Game-based curriculum and transformational play: Designing to meaningfully position person, content, and context. Computers & Education 58(3): 518–533.
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LSE 593 | Applied Project |
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EDT 584 | Internship |
EDT 690 | Reading and Conference |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
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FIS 371 | Impact Journey |
FIS 373 | Innovation Journey |
FIS 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 495 | Undergraduate Research |
EDT 584 | Internship |
EDT 690 | Reading and Conference |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
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LSE 542 | Research Methods Learning Sci |
EDT 784 | Internship |
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EDT 494 | Special Topics |
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