Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Culture(s) is a collection of essays sutured together by their use of science fiction as a departure from contemporary educational «realities». The authors, inspired by the visions, styles, and insights of various science fiction texts, films, and rap music, seek to transform the future of educational possibilities. Science Fiction Curriculum offers alternative paths to current regressive educational practices, policies, and reforms, and invites readers to venture into uncharted dimensions.

Autorentext

The Editors: John A. Weaver is Associate Professor at Georgia Southern University. He has co-edited, with Toby Daspit, Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy (2000), with Peter Appelbaum and Marla Morris (Post) Modern Science (Education) (Peter Lang, 2001), with Marla Morris Difficult Memories: Talk in a (Post) Holocaust Era (Peter Lang, 2002) and is the author of Rethinking Academic Politics in (Re)Unified Germany and the United States (2001). Karen Anijar is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education, Division of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum. She has also written on the political economy, time in curriculum, critical multiculturalism, Elvis, Selena, Chupacabras, apocalypse and milleniarism. Toby Daspit is an assistant professor in the department of teaching, learning, and Leadership at Western Michigan University. He is the co-editor, with John A. Weaver, of Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy (2000), and Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture (forthcoming) with Susan Edgerton and Gunilla Holm. He is also the co-author, with Pamela Dean and Petra Munro, of Talking Gumbo: A Teacher s Guide to Oral History in the Classroom (1998).

Inhalt

Contents: Karen Anijar/John A. Weaver/Toby Daspit: Introduction - John A. Weaver: Curriculum Theorists as Spawns from Hell - Marla Morris: Chronicles and Canticles: Curriculum as Science Fiction Text - Suzanne Damarin: Required Reading: Feminist Sci-Fi and Post-Millennial Curriculum - Matthew Weinstein: Science/Education: Technoscience, Schools and Social Justice - Noel Gough: Narrative Experiments: Manifesting Cyborgs in Curriculum Inquiry - William M. Reynolds: Shooting Arrows into the Air: Deleuze and Vampires - Karen Anijar/Toni Humber: The Criminalizing of the Africanized Honeybee: A Science Fiction Disaster Tale Told in Semiotic Three-Part Harmony - Gini Doolittle: Assimilation: The Borg and Teacher Socialization - Karen Ferneding: Understanding Teacher's Technological Pessimism Through the Eyes of Mary Shelley - Jason Earle/Sharon D. Kruse/Taylor P. Kruse: 'You Have to Save the Planet', He Said: Reading the Animorphs - Toby Daspit: 'Please Check Da Time/C'mon Check Da Rhyme': Speculative History in Public Enemy's Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age.