Generation Z Zombies, Popular Culture and Educating Youth /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Carrington, Victoria (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rowsell, Jennifer (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Priyadharshini, Esther (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Westrup, Rebecca (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education,
• Θέματα: Education.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Educational sociology.; Literacy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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 inv...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Section One
• Chapter 2 Preface Zombies Today
• Chapter 3 The 'next people': And the zombies shall inherit the earth
• Chapter 4 The Dead are Rising: Gender and Technology in the Landscape of Crisis
• Section Two
• Chapter 5 Into the Black: Zombie Pedagogy, Education and Youth at the end of the Anthropocene
• Chapter 6 From Prom Queen to Zombie Barbie: A tutorial in make up gender and living death
• Chapter 7 Pedagogy and the zombie mythos: Lessons from apocalyptics enactments
• Section Three
• Chapter 8 Staying up late watching The Walking Dead
• Chapter 9 Girls, Ghouls, and Girlhoods: Horror and fashion at Monster High
• Chapter 10 Zombies, Boys, and Videogames: Problems and Possibilities in an Assessment Culture
• Section Four
• Chapter 11 Students as zombies: How can we awaken the undead?
• Chapter 12 Zombies, Monsters and Education: The creation of the young citizen
• Chapter 13 Killing me softly.