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A=A: A Change In Social Movement Engagement And Leadership Should Equal A Change In Civic Education, Tess Tureson
A=A: A Change In Social Movement Engagement And Leadership Should Equal A Change In Civic Education, Tess Tureson
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
It seems as if almost everything in our world has changed with the introduction of the internet, personal computers, iPhones, and social media. We write emails instead of letters. We listen to podcasts and read articles online instead of buying a newspaper. Presidents communicate with the world on Twitter. The way we engage with politics has entirely changed. Yet, we are still going about civic education in schools the same way, teaching students to give speeches in city council meetings, write letters to their representative, and find current events from traditional news sources. This study offers new statistical evidence that …
A Study Of Leadership Behaviors In Esports Contexts, Joseph C. Tucker
A Study Of Leadership Behaviors In Esports Contexts, Joseph C. Tucker
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Soft skills, leadership in particular, are highly sought-after traits for businesses when searching for new employees. Using games as a tool to teach soft skills is fairly well documented. One way that games can do this is by creating a space where learners can practice these skills. Esports in particular seem to be an already existing space where modern, dynamic types of leadership are already practiced. In order to determine if this was indeed the case, I interviewed people who were involved in different levels of esports about the ways they behaved while playing esports. I found that in order …