You know, I had read the football / futsal thesis way back when I was doing curriculum design at Jane Street, though it had gotten buried in my mind somewhere. Thanks for bringing it back up!
If I’m being honest, it smells like something that doesn’t literally replicate, but it has a plausible-enough kernel of truth that it’s worth taking seriously even if it’s not literally true of youth in Brazil. And I do take it seriously, whether consciously or not, in my own philosophy of pedagogical game design.
You know, I had read the football / futsal thesis way back when I was doing curriculum design at Jane Street, though it had gotten buried in my mind somewhere. Thanks for bringing it back up!
If I’m being honest, it smells like something that doesn’t literally replicate, but it has a plausible-enough kernel of truth that it’s worth taking seriously even if it’s not literally true of youth in Brazil. And I do take it seriously, whether consciously or not, in my own philosophy of pedagogical game design.