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225
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

James Paul Gee is a researcher affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their primary fields of study include Social Sciences and Computer Science, with specific contributions to subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Education, Sociology and Political Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Educational Games and Gamification
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Technology-Enhanced Education Studies
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Literacy, Media, and Education
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

James Paul Gee has authored multiple publications, including journal articles and books. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Game-Design Teaching and Learning" (2021), published in Strategies
  • "From Tools to Discourses: In Conversation with James Paul Gee on Literacy and Artificial Intelligence" (2025), published in RELC Journal
  • "A Sensational View of Human Learning, Thinking, and Language" (2022), published in Literacy Research Theory Method and Practice

Other relevant recent works, while not authored by Gee directly but related to their field and collaborations, are:

  • ""Inside the Head and Out in the World". An Approach to Deep Teaching and Learning" (2020), published in Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research
  • "Learning as life project(s)" (2023), published in Learning Research and Practice

Their book titled Sensation, the Intuitive System, and Designed Experience: The Missing Links to Learning for Human Flourishing was published in 2023 by Common Ground Research Networks eBooks.

James Paul Gee has frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • Qing Archer Zhang
  • Moisès Esteban-Guitart
  • Scott M. Damrauer
  • Ali Soyoof
  • Guangxiang Liu

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, including:

  • Phi Delta Kappan
  • RELC Journal
  • Strategies
  • Learning Research and Practice
  • Postdigital Science and Education

In recognition of their contributions to education research, James Paul Gee was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2014.

Best Publications

  • What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

    James Paul Gee

  • Social Linguistics And Literacies: Ideology in Discourse

    James Paul Gee

  • An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method

    James Paul Gee

  • What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy

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  • A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures

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  • Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling

    James Paul Gee

  • Identity as an analytic lens for research in education

    James Paul Gee

  • Identity as an analytic lens for research in education

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  • Good Video Games + Good Learning: collected essays on video games, learning and literacy

    James Paul Gee

  • How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit : A Toolkit

    James Paul Gee

  • Social Linguistics and Literacies

    James Paul Gee

  • The New Work Order

    James Paul Gee;Glynda A. Hull;Colin Lankshear

  • Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction.

    James Paul Gee

  • How Computer Games Help Children Learn

    David Williamson Shaffer;James Paul Gee

  • Video Games and the Future of Learning

    David Williamson Shaffer;Kurt R. Squire;Richard Halverson;James P. Gee

  • How to Do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit

    James Paul Gee

  • The Social Mind: Language, Ideology, and Social Practice

    James Paul Gee

  • Learning by Design: good video games as learning machines

    James Paul Gee

  • Chapter 4: Discourse Analysis, Learning, and Social Practice: A Methodological Study:

    James Paul Gee;Judith L. Green

  • Reading as Situated Language : A Sociocognitive Perspective

    James Paul Gee

  • Language and Learning in the Digital Age

    James Paul Gee;Elisabeth R. Hayes

  • A Linguistic Approach to Narrative

    James Paul Gee

  • Discourse Analysis: What Makes It Critical?

    James Paul Gee

Frequent Co-Authors

David Williamson Shaffer
David Williamson Shaffer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Colin Lankshear
Colin Lankshear James Cook University
François Grosjean
François Grosjean University of Neuchâtel
Wolff-Michael Roth
Wolff-Michael Roth University of Victoria
Brian Hand
Brian Hand University of Iowa
Michele Knobel
Michele Knobel Montclair State University
Gregory J. Kelly
Gregory J. Kelly Pennsylvania State University
Bertram C. Bruce
Bertram C. Bruce University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gordon Wells
Gordon Wells University of California, Santa Cruz
David R. Olson
David R. Olson University of Toronto

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