Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice // Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido // 2003 // 320 pages // 1135624550, 9781135624552 // Routledge, 2003 Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of e...

Interactive technologies are being introduced into urban children’s lives in developing countries. It is critical that these children have an active voice in the process of developing such technologies. Towards these aims we describe the research goals, process and outcomes for an action research project. The overarching goal of the research is to investigate and better understand how edutainme...

An expert checklist for evaluating children’s software has been designed and validated on ten children in the second grade. In the first part of the investigation ten psychology students evaluated three edutainment games, all of different quality, by means of the checklist. Based on these results the items on the checklist were then analyzed and filtered (analysis of variance, item analysis). I...