Shall We Play? (Part One)

By Jochen Robes, 13. Mai 2011

Es gibt Autoren, die das Medium „Blog” mit ihren Beiträgen regelmäßig überstrapazieren. Henry Jenkins gehört dazu. Aber meistens lohnt die Lektüre, wie auch in diesem Fall. Denn Henry Jenkins schafft es, Zweifler wie mich für einen Beitrag übers Spielen zu begeistern. Wie? Indem er gleich zu Beginn seiner Ausführungen sagt, „I want to push games aside and talk about play”. Als Kronzeugen zitiert er Bruno Bettelheim:

“Generally speaking, play refers to the young child’s activities characterized by freedom from all but personally imposed rules (which are changed at will), by free-wheeling fantasy involvement, and by the absence of any goals outside the activities itself …

Games, however, are usually competitive and are characterised by agreed-upon, often externally imposed, rules, by a requirement to use the implements of the activity in the manner for which they were intended and not as fancy suggests, and frequently by a goal or purpose outside the activity, such as winning the game.”

Play vs. Games (und game-based learning), that’s it! Im Folgenden stellt er uns seine “Six Properties of Play” vor: permission, process, passion, productivity, participation, pleasure. Aber da war ich schon überzeugt …
Henry Jenkins, Confessions of an Aka-Fan, 13. Mai 2011

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