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And Edutainment Is?

For at least the past 16 years the term edutainment has been in use.  I don't know who coined the phrase, but I'm assuming it was someone in the entertainment industry because that's when I first remember having run into the term and adapting it into my vocabulary.

It's not difficult to follow the logical path of how the word was coined ... some intrepid soul needed a description for what they did and what they did combined Education and Entertainment.

Edutainment.

What is not to easy to follow are the meanderings--the twists and turns--the phrase has taken since I became aware of it.  Now it's in use by so many industries in so many ways that it doesn't necessarily connote the same thing between any two users.

The basic premise, though, remains the same:  learning and remembering are enhanced with the impact of the "material".  Play, ignited with and by curiosity, is used by many species to inculcate their young and ensure survival.  For humans play is used consisently from birth to death.  It facilitates growth by example, exeriments, communication, and sense of well-being.

Curious?  Not only about how to teach children (and adults) crucial values but how to illuminate your own life with verve?  Release concepts about lecturing, start lorecraefting.  The power of storying has been used throughout the ages and in every culture to teach, without preaching.  To illuminate in one of the ways that is truly effective.  By illustration, by joy, by contributing to basic character traits:  respect, cooperation, responsibility.