ΑN INNOVATIVE TRANSMEDIA-BASED GAME DEVELOPMENT METHOD FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Education is the cornerstone for a society without discrimination as it promotes full personality development and enhances respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. As a result of the “Education for all” policy, more children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) are inc...

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Main Authors: Polyxeni Kaimara, Ioannis Deliyannis, Andreas Oikonomou, Emmanuel Fokides, George Miliotis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Digital Culture & Education (DCE) 2021-09-01
Series:Digital Culture & Education
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Online Access:https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-132-papers/kaimara-etal-2021
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Summary:Education is the cornerstone for a society without discrimination as it promotes full personality development and enhances respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. As a result of the “Education for all” policy, more children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) are included in neighbourhood schools regardless of their cognitive, physical or emotional condition. Inclusive education (IE) focuses on learning motivation and styles, different students’ learning pace, learning objectives, methods, personalized strategies, material, and content. The degree of independent living of both children with or without SEND is one of the main concerns of educators, parents, and therapists. Children with SEND often struggle to achieve independence because of their limitations in adaptive behaviour. Considering valid epistemological backgrounds, pedagogical frameworks and a range of intervention strategies focusing on those skills, the paper presents an innovate transmediabased game development method for inclusive education, combining traditional games, art-based production, and game development methodologies with cutting-edge technologies involving 360˚ videos, virtual, and augmented reality
ISSN:1836-8301