Jesper Juul – лучшие книги

Jesper Juul wurde am 18. April 1948 in Dänemark geboren, wo er mit seinen Eltern und seinem Bruder auch seine Kindheit und Jugend verbrachte. Er beschäftigte sich u. a. mit Badminton und Vogelstudien und war als Pfadfinder unterwegs. Nach der Schule verließ er das Land und befuhr als Schiffskoch den Fernen Osten, arbeitete als Tellerwäscher und Barmann. Mit 18 Jahren nahm er ein Geschichts- und Religionsstudium auf, fühlte sich aber auf Dauer mit praktischer Arbeit wohler, sodass er die akademische Karriere aufgab. Stattdessen widmete er sich nun der Jugend- und Elternarbeit und gründete das Kempler Institut für Familientherapie. Während und nach dem Bosnienkrieg engagierte er sich für Flüchtlinge und Kriegsveteranen. Jesper Juul lebt in zweiter Ehe mit einer Kroatin zusammen.

Jesper Juul zeigt Wege auf, wie Eltern kranker Kinder Kraftquellen erschließen, die allen Familienmitgliedern Entlastung ermöglichen.
Kraft entsteht dort, wo die eigenen Bedürfnisse ernst genommen werden und wo wir dem Kind zutrauen, schrittweise Eigenverantwortung im Umgang mit der Krankheit zu lernen. Der berühmte Familientherapeut macht Mut, Lebensfreude und die richtige Balance in der Familie zu finden.

Half–Real – Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds

We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and shout in frustration as we lose, or die, or fail to advance to the next level. Humans may have a fundamental desire to succeed and feel competent, but game players choose to engage in an activity in which they are nearly certain to fail and feel incompetent. So why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy? Juul examines this paradox.

In video games, as in tragic works of art, literature, theater, and cinema, it seems that we want to experience unpleasantness even if we also dislike it. Reader or audience reaction to tragedy is often explained as catharsis, as a purging of negative emotions. But, Juul points out, this doesn't seem to be the case for video game players. Games do not purge us of unpleasant emotions; they produce them in the first place. What, then, does failure in video game playing do?

Juul argues that failure in a game is unique in that when you fail in a game, you (not a character) are in some way inadequate. Yet games also motivate us to play more, in order to escape that inadequacy, and the feeling of escaping failure (often by improving skills) is a central enjoyment of games. Games, writes Juul, are the art of failure: the singular art form that sets us up for failure and allows us to experience it and experiment with it.

The Art of Failure is essential reading for anyone interested in video games, whether as entertainment, art, or education.

We used to think that video games were mostly for young men, but with the success of the Nintendo Wii, and the proliferation of games in browsers, cell phone games, and social games video games changed changed fundamentally in the years from 2000 to 2010. These new casual games are now played by men and women, young and old. Players need not possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In "A Casual Revolution," Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction. With this reinvention of video games, the game industry reconnects with a general audience. Many of today's casual game players once enjoyed " Pac-Man, Tetris," and other early games, only to drop out when video games became more time-consuming and complex. Juul shows that it is only by understanding what a game requires of players, what players bring to a game, how the game industry works, and how video games have developed historically that we can understand what makes video games fun and why we choose to play (or not to play) them.

A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul examines the constantly evolving tension between rules and fiction in video games. Discussing games from "Pong" to "The Legend of Zelda," from chess to "Grand Theft Auto," he shows how video games are both a departure from and a development of traditional non-electronic games. The book combines perspectives from such fields as literary and film theory, computer science, psychology, economic game theory, and game studies, to outline a theory of what video games are, how they work with the player, how they have developed historically, and why they are fun to play.

Locating video games in a history of games that goes back to Ancient Egypt, Juul argues that there is a basic affinity between games and computers. Just as the printing press and the cinema have promoted and enabled new kinds of storytelling, computers work as enablers of games, letting us play old games in new ways and allowing for new kinds of games that would not have been possible before computers. Juul presents a classic game model, which describes the traditional construction of games and points to possible future developments. He examines how rules provide challenges, learning, and enjoyment for players, and how a game cues the player into imagining its fictional world. Juul's lively style and eclectic deployment of sources will make "Half-Real" of interest to media, literature, and game scholars as well as to game professionals and gamers.

Vier Werte sind für den Familientherapeuten und Bestsellerautor Jesper Juul entscheidend für eine gute Entwicklung von Kindern: Gleichwürdigkeit, Integrität, Authentizität und Verantwortung. In seinem neuen GU-Ratgeber Vier Werte, die Eltern und Jugendliche durch die Pubertät tragen zeigt er, dass diese auch entscheidend sind für das Gelingen der spannenden Übergangsphase von der Kindheit ins Erwachsenenalter. Jetzt steht nicht mehr die Erziehung im Vordergrund, sondern eine gute Beziehung zwischen Eltern und Kindern. Wie dies in der Praxis gelingt, zeigt Jesper Juul anhand realer Familiensituationen mit Jugendlichen von ca. 12-20. Diese werden oft in authentischen, bewegenden Briefen geschildert und von Jesper Juul sehr einfühlsam beantwortet. Er ermutigt Mütter und Väter, die Jahre der Pubertät nicht vornehmlich als Krisenschauplatz zu betrachten, sondern als Chance, ihr Verhältnis zu ihren bald erwachsenen Kindern auf eine lebendige, respektvolle und authentische Basis zu stellen.