Childhood, science fiction, and pedagogy : children ex machina / David W. Kupferman, Andrew Gibbons, editors.
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 len...
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why childhood ex machina?
- Part I Relationship
- Franken-education, or when science runs amok
- The monstrous voice: M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts
- Toy Gory, or the Ontology of Chucky: Childhood and killer dolls
- Part II Affect
- Through the Black Mirror: Innocence, abuse, and justice in "Shut Up and Dance"
- Your Android Ain't Funky (or Robots Can't Find the Good Foot): Race, Power, and Children in Otherworldy Imaginations
- Tension, Sensation, and Pedagogy: Depictions of Childhood's Struggle in Saga and Paper Girls
- Part III Pedagogy
- A Utopian Mirror: Reflections from the future of childhood and education in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Island
- Filling the mind: Cortical knowlege uploads, didactic downloads, and the problem of learning in the future
- Heretic Gnosis: Education, children, and the problem of knowing otherwise
- "Life is a Game, So Fight for Survival": The neoliberal logic of educational colonialism within the Battle Royale Franchise
- Part IV Conclusion
- Children and Pedagogy Between Science and Fiction.