Dystopia and education : insights into theory, praxis, and policy in an age of utopia-gone-wrong

• Other Authors: Heybach, Jessica H. (Editor), Sheffield, Eric C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2013]
• Series: Studies in the philosophy of education.
• Subjects: Education and state > United States.; School improvement programs > United States.; Dystopias in literature.; Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613762
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-285-2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 269 pages)

Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an as-of-yet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Dystopia and education / William Ayers
• Preface: Dystopia and education? / Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield
• Acknowledgments
• Section I. Theory
• Chapter 1. Dystopian theory: Can we see what we have not yet theorized? / Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield
• Chapter 2. An aesthetic of horror in education: Schools as dystopian environments / Kerry Freedman
• Chapter 3. Youth, the self, and violence: A hegelian analysis of fight club / Kip Kline
• Chapter 4. Merit, democracy, governing / Benjamin Baez
• Chapter 5. Dyst(r)opia: A tropological argument for dystopia in education / F. Tony Carusi
• Chapter 6. Tests, consumerism, and the cruel drone of white noise / Andrew N. McKnight
• Section II. Praxis
• Chapter 7. Dystopian practice or praxis? / Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield
• Chapter 8. Dystopian love manifested in a dystopian aesthetic: Insights into contemporary educational practice from a clockwork orange / Eric C. Sheffield
• Chapter 9. Lessons from elsewhere / or, Rethinking Democracy and Public Education Through Lois Lowry's The Giver / Eric D. Smith and Philip E. Kovacs
• Chapter 10. When undergraduate students read huxley's brave new world and plato's republic in an educational foundations course / Steven P. Jones
• Chapter 11. Unlearning with the dystopian youth: Sating student hunger with the hunger games / Becky L. Noel Smith
• Chapter 12. Gaming as virtual education: Insights from dystopian art / Stefan J. Sheffield
• Section III. Policy
• Chapter 13. Are utopian educational policies inherently dystopian? / Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield
• Chapter 14. In search of equality of educational opportunity for Harrison Bergeron / John E. Petrovic
• Chapter 15. An educational dystopia: Mary Shelley's frankenstein and race to the top / Bradley D. Rowe and Taylor Lacy Klassman
• Chapter 16. Orwell's 1984 and education as commodity spectacle / Dennis Attick
• Chapter 17. Dystopia, disciplinarity, and governmentality: A foucauldian analysis of the novels of isamu fukui / Joshua Garrison and Leslee Grey
• Chapter 18. Education's handmaids? The role of the teacher in the age of accountability / Alison Happel and Becky Atkinson
• Chapter 19. All I really needed to know about tolerance I learned from zombies / Richard McDonald and Nicholas McDonald
• About the contributors.