Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.
Edutainment typically seeks to instruct or socialize its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form of entertainment: television programs, computer and video games, films, music, websites, multimedia software, etc. Examples might be guided nature tours that entertain while educating participants on a...
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Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse.
Edutainment typically seeks to instruct or socialize its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form of entertainment: television programs, computer and video games, films, music, websites, multimedia software, etc. Examples might be guided nature tours that entertain while educating participants on animal life and habitats, or a video game that teaches children conflict resolution skills. Most often, edutainment seeks either to tutor in one or more specific subjects, or to change behavior by engendering specific sociocultural attitudes. Successful edutainment is discernible by the fact that learning becomes fun and teachers or speakers educate an audience in a manner which is both engaging and amusing.
It can be argued that edutainment has existed for millennia in the form of parables and fables that promoted social change. One of the...
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