As potencialidades do RPG (Role Playing game) na educação escolar
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2008-03-20
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Vasques, Rafael Carneiro [UNESP]
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
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Este trabalho pretende apresentar uma análise do RPG (Role Playing Game) a partir de sua fecundidade enquanto ferramenta didático-pedagógica. Neste sentido, um de nossos esforços foi o exame de pesquisas brasileiras que abordaram o jogo, para uma melhor compreensão da metodologia aplicada ao estudo deste que é um objeto recente das ciências. Por notarmos a existência de uma visão marginalizadora em relação ao RPG, capaz de limitar as iniciativas de utilização do jogo no processo de ensinoaprendizagem, sentimos a necessidade de desmistificá-lo e, assim, analisamos notícias divulgadas na mídia que sugerem a existência de uma conexão entre o RPG, crimes e rituais de magia; bem como materiais de instituições religiosas em que esta associação também é pontuada. Para assimilar esta tensa relação entre o RPG e a religião, lançamos mão do conceito, formulado por Max Weber, de desencantamento do mundo e, com isso, inferimos a filiação do RPG ao pensamento científico, dedução esclarecedora para a compreensão do conflito deste com o pensamento religioso. Paralelamente à discussão destas questões preliminares, apontamos no RPG traços do Romantismo Anti-Capitalista de Michael Löwy e Robert Sayre, o que nos permitiu compreender características deste jogo que possibilitam uma experiência educativa que contradiz a semiformação oferecida pela Indústria Cultural, ao propor uma ação alicerçada na Experiência (Erfahrung) dos participantes, ao contrário das mercadorias típicas da Indústria Cultural, fundadas na Vivência (Erlebnis) dos expectadores. Abordamos ainda uma especificidade do objeto que julgamos significativa: a possibilidade dos jogadores de lançarem à história um olhar não-determinista, por ser esta apresentada de forma aberta a transformações e construída coletivamente, desnaturalizando o social.
This work seeks to present an analysis of role-playing games (RPGs) from the perspective of their richness as didactical-pedagogical tools. As such, we endeavor to investigate the ongoing research regarding these games, as it is carried out in Brazil, in order to achieve a better understanding of the methodology that has been applied to the study of this brand-new subject of science. Since we notice a trend towards marginalization of role-playing games – an outlook that could curtail initiatives regarding the application of RPGs to the teachinglearning process – we consider it necessary to demystify them; therefore, pieces of news disclosed by the media, implying a connection between RPGs, crime and magic rituals, are analysed; materials issued by religious institutions in which that connection is punctuated are scrutinized as well. To grasp this uneasy relationship between role-playing games and religion, we refer to Max Weber’s concept of disenchantment of the world, and by doing so we infer the association of RPGs to scientific thinking – an enlightening conclusion that has enabled us to understand the conflict between scientific and religious thinking. Besides discussing these preliminary issues, we identify in role-playing games some features from Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre’s Romantic anti-Capitalism, a perspective that allowed us to understand certain traits of these games, traits that enable an educative experience in contradiction with the semi-formation offered by Cultural Industry, by proposing an action grounded in the partakers’ Experience (Erfahrung), instead of the typical commodities of the Cultural Industry that are based in the viewers’ Lived Experience (Erlebnis).
This work seeks to present an analysis of role-playing games (RPGs) from the perspective of their richness as didactical-pedagogical tools. As such, we endeavor to investigate the ongoing research regarding these games, as it is carried out in Brazil, in order to achieve a better understanding of the methodology that has been applied to the study of this brand-new subject of science. Since we notice a trend towards marginalization of role-playing games – an outlook that could curtail initiatives regarding the application of RPGs to the teachinglearning process – we consider it necessary to demystify them; therefore, pieces of news disclosed by the media, implying a connection between RPGs, crime and magic rituals, are analysed; materials issued by religious institutions in which that connection is punctuated are scrutinized as well. To grasp this uneasy relationship between role-playing games and religion, we refer to Max Weber’s concept of disenchantment of the world, and by doing so we infer the association of RPGs to scientific thinking – an enlightening conclusion that has enabled us to understand the conflict between scientific and religious thinking. Besides discussing these preliminary issues, we identify in role-playing games some features from Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre’s Romantic anti-Capitalism, a perspective that allowed us to understand certain traits of these games, traits that enable an educative experience in contradiction with the semi-formation offered by Cultural Industry, by proposing an action grounded in the partakers’ Experience (Erfahrung), instead of the typical commodities of the Cultural Industry that are based in the viewers’ Lived Experience (Erlebnis).
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Educação, Jogos, Industria cultural
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VASQUES, Rafael Carneiro. As potencialidades do RPG (Role Playing game) na educação escolar. 2008. 169 f. Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Araraquara, 2008.