Education by the play

The education by the play (also called ludo-education , édumusement (of English edutainment ) or educational recreation ) is the fusion of the entertainment and education. It is a form of Divertissement conceived to educate while amusing. Education by the play typically seeks to inform or socialize its audience by wrapping the lessons in some form familiar of entertainment: television programs, video games, films, music, multi-media Web sites, programs, etc For example it could be visits which divert and educate.

Generally, education by the play seeks either with tutorer in a specific subject or more, or to change the behavior into generating specific sociocultural attitudes. It is also used to comprise the pupils in certain British schools. An education by the play succeeded is discernible thanks to the fact that the training becomes amusing and that the professors or speakers educate an audience in a way as much engaging that amusing. It is a discipline employed for a long time in the nursery schools, outdoor centres and of holidays consisting in making learn by the play. Its adjective is ludo-educational or " ludactique" , term created by association " ARBRE" at the origin of the project of the park Bioscope (Alsace).

Groups varied with the the United States and the the United Kingdom used education by the play to speak about social problems or health such as the Toxicomanie, the Vaccination, the pregnancies teenagers, the AIDS and cancer.

In the United States, this approach privileges the recreation, often with depend on the educational contents. The idea is that the Americans are accustomed so much to the entertainments such as the cinemas and the parks with topics which they ask of the experiments similar to the cultural institutions. A museum is initially seen like a company in competition to obtain the dollars of the public, rather than like an institution of public service aiming at education or historical safeguarding.

Contrary, in Europe, the approach privileges education with the detriment of the recreation. The idea is that education is priority because nobler than the recreation, and also because it is the sought-after goal of these places which are generally on the initiative of the territorial collectivities.

But one attends today the birth of private places of entertainment which vis-a-vis the pressure of " éducativement the correct" , seek to diversify by integrating educational contents.

Etymology

The name édumusement is a neologism suggested by impassioned amusement parks French (ParcsPassion.org, NewsParcs.com) translating the English term “edutainment”.

The name edutainment is a neologism suggested by Bob Heyman whereas it produced the documentary ones for the National Geographic Society.

“Edutainment” is also used in reference to the use of small pieces of eLearning used to deliver key messages in a diverting way. This can be used to treat provocantes questions such as ethics, diversity and conformity.

According to other sources, Peter Catalanotto was the first to use this word at the end of the years 1990 whereas he travelled through the country by édumusant the schoolboys in connection with the writing and of the illustration.

Before this period, " Edutainment" was the title of the fourth album of the group of hip-hop Boogie Down Productions which left in 1990.

This expression abandoned in French because was not attested.

Education by the play in the museums

Education by the play is also a Paradigme growing in the community of the scientific museums. The first French examples are the Palais of discovered the and the Cité of sciences and industry in Paris. With the passing of years other museums of education by the play such as the " appeared; Quoted of Space " with Toulouse, " National center of the Sea Naüsicaa " with Boulogne-sur-Mer, " Vulcania " close to Clermont-Ferrand and " Bioscope " with Ungersheim in Alsace.

Education by the play in the amusement parks

Its matérialisation in amusement parks draws its inspiration in the sets of memories and strategy and in the City of Sciences in Paris. She currently makes great strides and important matérialisation with the opening of the recreational centres " Kidzania" (Mexico City, Tokyo), of the scientific exposure " Cradologie" , of the recreational center " Earth Explorer" (Ostend, Belgium) and of the virtual project of park " Spyland" (Valence in France, Dubai).

Education by the play in the television programs

Here, education by the play defines television series, like Rue Sesame , Tibère , Dora exploring the , and the Teletubbies .

For largest, episodes of sitcom are used also occasionally as media of education by the play, sometimes described in the tele commercial language of the United States like “very special episodes”. It was told that an episode of the American Sitcom Happy Days had caused an increase of 600% of the requests for charts of libraries to the U.S.

Other media of education by the play

One of the current trends in education by the play is its inclusion in other forms of media, of which the radio, the press, and Internet. The soap opera of the radio operator British " The Archers" during decades its audience educated systematically on the problems of agriculture; in the same way, the soap opera of the radio Tanzania " Twende Na Wakati" (" Let us go With Moments") the Family planning was written initially to promote.

Source

According to " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edutainment"

Internal bonds

Software ludo-educational

External bonds

EducatedEarth.net, a specialized site in édumusement, including one video of presentation of the operation of Wikipédia, by Jimmy Wales
Site of the City of the Space of Toulouse
Site of the national center of the sea
Site of Vulcania
Site of Bioscope

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