Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy : Children Ex Machina Paperback / softback
Edited by David W. Kupferman, Andrew Gibbons
Part of the Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book invites readers to both reassess and reconceptualize definitions of childhood and pedagogy by imagining the possibilities - past, present, and future - provided by the aesthetic turn to science fiction.
It explores constructions of children, childhood, and pedagogy through the multiple lenses of science fiction as a method of inquiry, and discusses what counts as science fiction and why science fiction counts. The book examines the notion of relationships in a variety of genres and stories; probes affect in the convergence of childhood and science fiction; and focuses on questions of pedagogy and the ways that science fiction can reflect the status quo of schooling theory, practice, and policy as well as offer alternative educative possibilities.
Additionally, the volume explores connections between children and childhood studies, pedagogy and posthumanism.
The various contributors use science fiction as the frame of reference through which conceptual links between inquiry and narrative, grounded in theories of media studies, can be developed.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:229 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 229 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. i
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:21/08/2020
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- ISBN:9789811362125
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:229 pages, 2 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 229 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. i
- Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Publication Date:21/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9789811362125