Ventajas de los juegos cooperativos presenciales en ciencias sociales
- 1 Universidad del País Vasco, España
ISSN: 1012-1587
Year of publication: 2015
Issue: 5
Pages: 343-361
Type: Article
More publications in: Opción: Revista de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
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.