Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change
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The Freechild Project announces the release of the "Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change," a revised version of "So, You Wanna Be a Playa?"
This introductory guide offers more than 30 activities for youth people, teachers, youth workers, counselors, parents, and anyone who wants to have FUN with meaning! The guide includes descriptions, hints, facilitator notes, and more for icebreakers, initiatives, "funners," and closing games.
The "Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change" is available FREE online.
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This introductory guide offers more than 30 activities for youth people, teachers, youth workers, counselors, parents, and anyone who wants to have FUN with meaning! The guide includes descriptions, hints, facilitator notes, and more for icebreakers, initiatives, "funners," and closing games.
The "Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change" is available FREE online.
Learn more at
Link
Kids know games. Telling them to not keep score is an exercise in futility. Competition has a place, but it is considered to be hard wired into humans. We're predatory by nature and that implies a drive to win.
Moderating and tempering that alleged instinct is part of the rationale for society itself. So therein lies the fatal flaw of applying game theory to social change. The question is what society and whose rules.
Consider Lord of the Flies as a paragdim for children (read it humans) left to their own devices. From a Buddhist perspective the initial question in an encounter with any living being should be the prime question: Do I eat you or do you eat me?
As a species I want to think we reached an universal agreement on the point. That is indeed not a dog eat dog world. But the realist in me sees the question remains on a social and economic level at least.