We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Role-playing issues 6 and 7 are now available. These two issues feature articles emerging from two recent conferences: Role-playing and Simulation in Education at Texas State University in Round Rock and Living Games 2016 in Austin, Texas. These conferences took place May 19-22, 2016. The tables of contents are listed below with links to the documents.
Additionally, William J. White has taken over executive editorial duties for the journal, with Sarah Lynne Bowman and Evan Torner serving as coordinating editors for these editions.
Finally, the International Journal of Role-playing issue 5 is available after final layout. Download IJRP 5 here.
On behalf of the editorial board,
Sarah Lynne Bowman
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IJRP 6: Special Issue — Role-playing and Simulation in Education
Sarah Lynne Bowman, “Editorial”
Brodie Atwater, “We Need to Talk: A Literature Review of Debrief”
Sarah Lynne Bowman and Andhe Standiford, “Enhancing Healthcare Simulations and Beyond: Immersion Theory and Practice”
Gabriel de los Angeles, “Scaffolding Role Playing: An Analysis of Role-playing Interactions with Non Role-players of All Ages”
Jason Cox, “Arts-Based Inquiry with Art Educators through American Freeform”
J. Tuomas Harviainen, “Physical Presence in Simulation: A Scratch at the Surface of Complexity”
Mikael Hellström, “Playing Political Science: Leveraging Game Design in the Post-Secondary Classroom”
Josh T. Jordan, “Simulation and Character Ownership in Secondary Dramatic Literature Education”
Graham MacLean, “One Way to Create Educational Games”
Evan Torner, “Teaching German Literature Through Larp: A Proposition”
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IJRP 7: Special Issue — Living Games 2016
Evan Torner, “Editorial”
Ryan Blackstock, “Origin Stories: The Phenomenological Relationship Between Players and their Characters”
Tim Hutchings and Jason Giardino, “Foucault’s Heterotopias as Play Spaces”
Diana J. Leonard, Lewis & Clark College, “Conflict and Change: Testing a Life-cycle Derived Model of Larp Group Dynamics”
TiMar Long, “Character Creation Diversity in Gaming Art”
Samara Hayley Steele, “The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate LARP Rules as Code that Runs on Humans”
William J. White, “Actual Play at the Forge: A Rhetorical Approach”