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Generation Z: Zombies, Popular Culture and Educating Youth

By Jennifer Rowsell , Victoria Carrington , Esther Priyadharshini , Rebecca Westrup (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Singapore
Year
2016
ISBN
978-981-287-932-5, 978-981-287-934-9
DOI
10.1007/978-981-287-934-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5354228 bytes)
Series
Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 187\188
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Sociology of Education; Literacy; Regional and Cul

Description

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.

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