Browsing by Author "Anttila, Väinö Elias"

This theoretically focused bachelor’s thesis aims to illuminate similarities and differences between pedagogical discussion on child agency in context of play-pedagogy and hobbyist discussions of player agency in context of tabletop roleplaying games. This research attempted to construct robust framework of theoretical models and concepts used to examine these topics and bring them together for comparison. What is play? What are tabletop roleplaying games? How are they different from similar phenomena? How are they similar? How does the concept of agency appear within their context? This theoretically focused research found many interesting parallels between the teacher profession and Game Master role, which has seldom been examined in depth in academic writing. Further, many of the game studies theories on pedagogical utility of games are complimentary to Hakkarainen’s narrative learning as it is applied in play-world pedagogy. This researches’ findings should be considered narrowly in context of play world pedagogy and game studies focused on tabletop roleplaying games.