Enjoyment in the Anthropocene: the extimacy of ecological catastrophe in
            <i>Donut County</i>

Nicoll, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2023.2188439

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“…Teachers must be flexible while planning and creating learning activities by matching up with intended learning outcomes, choosing the best teaching resources, and considering each student's special requirements and characteristics. Despite careful planning (Nicoll, 2023), there is a chance that the learning process won't go as smoothly as it should for various reasons. For instance, during learning, student attentiveness tends to be short-lived.…”

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How can ice-breaking's "friends here, enemies there" increase the interest and enthusiasm of high school students for learning?

Darmayanti,

Arif,

Soebagyo

et al. 2023

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Managing learning classes creatively is one aspect of being a professional educator. The teacher must adapt to the learning objectives, materials, and students' personalities in preparing and planning for learning. Even though preparations have been carried out optimally, it does not rule out the possibility that learning has not performed optimally due to certain factors. To prevent students' enthusiasm for learning from waning, instructors can use ice-breaking activities to combat boredom during classroom instruction. This study aims to investigate ice-breaking techniques' impact on middle school pupils' academic motivation. This investigation employs a descriptive methodology with a qualitative approach. The research objects were eleventh-grade students and their instructors, who served as the research subjects. The research was conducted through observation, interviews, and documentation of secondary school instructors and students who were the subjects of the study. The study results indicate that the ice-breaking technique can increase students' interest in learning, particularly in challenging subjects. In addition, this method can strengthen the relationship between students and instructors. This research has intriguing aspects, including how and what this article discusses.

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Section: Increased Study Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

How can ice-breaking's "friends here, enemies there" increase the interest and enthusiasm of high school students for learning?

Darmayanti,

Arif,

Soebagyo

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“…It will be argued that social imaginaries, utopian thinking and social visioning are shaped not only by what is potentially possible and can be actualised but also by what is not. Through this, we contribute to and expand upon existing geography scholarship on critical sustainability studies and the depoliticisation of sustainability (Anderson, 2023; Blühdorn, 2013; Nicoll, 2023; Pohl and Swyngedouw, 2023), to argue that the idea that we can be individually sustainable is only possible with radical collective change. Indeed, over the last couple of decades, social scientists in general, and geographers more specifically, have paid significant attention to the many challenges and contradictions posed by the ever-pressing – and seemingly unattainable – societal thrust towards sustainability.…”

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Sustainability and impossible worlds

Menga,

Vanolo

2024

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper mobilises the idea of impossible worlds to conceptualise and explore inconsistent and illogical visions and ways of living sustainably. Specifically, the paper focuses on an understanding of sustainability based on classic Kantian universalistic ethics (suppose everyone did the same) and relative feelings of responsibility and guilt for the environment. By mobilising three vignettes, the paper argues that impossibility is present in current environmental thinking, and narratives of impossibility have an emotional and political role in shaping popular discourses concerning environmentalism and responsibility. It suggests that exploring glitches, impossibilities, contradictions and inconsistencies may contribute to understanding the role of personal guilt in sustainability narratives, and potentially trigger change.

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From Aesthetics to Asymmetry: Contradictions of Ecological Play in Cities: Skylines

May,

Hall

2023

Games and Culture

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Anchored in the Anthropocene era's paradigm of human mastery over nature, Cities: Skylines grants its players extensive agency to shape untouched terrains into sprawling cities. We draw upon “ecological thought”—a mode of awareness that highlights the radical interconnectedness of all beings and their environments—to consider the ecological dynamics of city-building by the game's players. Analyzing player-generated paratexts from online game communities reveals that while many players aspire toward ecocentric city designs, they instead inadvertently restage the asymmetric planetary relationship emblematic of our current era. Our analysis uncovers the capital-driven assumptions that characterize human–environment relations in the game. Attempts at ecocentric aesthetics invariably subsumed by cybernetic interactions that privilege the Anthropocene's prevailing power dynamics. These expressions highlight the inherent contradictions of the Anthropocene era as encountered in Cities: Skylines and illustrate the permeability between the contemporary material world and digital play.

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Enjoyment in the Anthropocene: the extimacy of ecological catastrophe in Donut County

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

How can ice-breaking's "friends here, enemies there" increase the interest and enthusiasm of high school students for learning?

How can ice-breaking's "friends here, enemies there" increase the interest and enthusiasm of high school students for learning?

Sustainability and impossible worlds

From Aesthetics to Asymmetry: Contradictions of Ecological Play in Cities: Skylines

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