Ventajas de los juegos cooperativos presenciales en ciencias sociales

  1. Igor Filibi 1
  2. Ixone Alonso 1
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco, España
Journal:
Opción: Revista de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales

ISSN: 1012-1587

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 5

Pages: 343-361

Type: Article

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Abstract

This paper stresses the utility of face-to-face role games in social sciences, due to their lesser cost, bigger transparency of game mechanics and bigger capacity for its analysis, as much as a great potential to work on several skills such as teamwork, negotiation, social skills or critical thinking. Furthermore, without lessening the value of competitive games, it will be stressed the educative potential of cooperative games, those in which every member of the team share the group destiny, what has been found as a potent educative tool which works essential values in democracies.