Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces

""Many books and articles exist that focus on theorising and measuring student engagement, so it is refreshing to see an alternative perspective in Noreen Dunnett’s (2024) Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces. Dunnett (2024) provides an engaging and original contribution both to the fields of education and video game studies. She argues that video games and the practices that surround them offer creative, dynamic, and agile possibilities for learning. Studying these possibilities provides the potential to disrupt traditional educational practices of teaching and learning and enable the creation of pedagogies that counter the boredom that is inherent in our current approaches to schooling. The methodological contribution of the assemblage ethnography in action provides a clear example of how in-depth qualitative research can be carried out in rigorous and reflective ways...it is crucial that we keep looking at alternative (and better) ways to make school teaching more inclusive and engaging, and this book does just that. By adding to the voices that problematise modern education and look for alternatives to current practice, it makes an excellent—and disruptive—contribution."" Nicola Whitton, Northumbria University, UK