Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces

This book challenges common understandings of boredom and disengagement in classrooms, taking a relational approach to boredom which looks beyond the usual distinctions between in-school and out-of-school practices.

Noreen Dunnett is a research associate in Digital Education, Centre for Research in Digital Education, and an associate tutor and dissertation supervisor on Master of Science in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK.

1. The problem with boredom 2. Re-imagining boredom as a schooling phenomenon 3. Becoming an assemblage ethnographer: a personal account 4. The assembling of boredom through spatio-temporal practices 5. Practices, participation and agency: feedback and modelling 6. Creating affective atmospheres in classrooms and digital gaming 7. Conclusion