Generation Z: Zombies, Popular Culture And Educating Youth (cultural Studies And Transdisciplinarity In Education)
by Victoria Carrington /
2015 / English / EPUB
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This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models – such as ‘childhood’ and ‘school’, ‘class’ and ‘family’ – that so deeply underpin educational policy and practice as to be rendered invisible. It brings together authors from a range of disciplines to use contemporary zombie typologies – slave, undead, contagion – to examine the responsiveness of everyday practices of schooling such as literacy, curriculum and pedagogy to the new contexts in which children and young people develop their identities, attitudes to learning, and engage with the many publics that make up their everyday worldsConsiders education and schooling at a time of zombie processes and categories related to marketization, corporatization and mediatisation
Explores the figure of the zombie as a catalyst for critical accounts of curriculum and pedagogy
Provides a lively canvas for the critical examination of many of the pedagogic and institutional practices in contemporary schooling
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This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models such as childhood and school, class and family that so deeply underpin educational policy and practice as to be rendered invisible. It brings together authors from a range of disciplines to use contemporary zombie typologies slave, undead, contagion to examine the responsiveness of everyday practices of schooling such as literacy, curriculum and pedagogy to the new contexts in which children and young people develop their identities, attitudes to learning, and engage with the many publics that make up their everyday worlds.
