Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum

by Karen Anijar

Overview

Trekkie popular culture sees Star Trek as a unifying myth. Dr Anijar explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children's lives, and the effects of utopian interpretations of Star Trek on teaching practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815325239
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/26/2000
Series:	Pedagogy and Popular Culture , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword: The Ponderosa and the Enterprise: Go Up, Young Man, to the Final Frontier CHAPTER 1 Gnosticism Is the Final Frontier: When the Red, Red Trekker Went Hale-Bopp, Bopping Along….CHAPTER 2 The Way, the Truth, and the Light CHAPTER 3 Intermezzo for NASA, Star Fleet, the Armed Services, and Giant Corporations in B Sharp CHAPTER 4 Klingon as Curriculum: Militias, Minstrel Shows, and Other Language Games CHAPTER 5 Resistance Is Futile: You Will Be Assimilated into the Predatory Jungle CHAPTER 6 On Top of Old Mount Olympus, All Covered with Trek; or Mama, Don’t Let Your Trekker Grow Up to Be a Fascist

Editorial Reviews

"It would be wrong to read this book as an analysis ofStar Trekfor teachers. it would be equally inappropriate to read it as journalistic reporting on Trekdom. It is instead a deeply serious contribution to curriculum theory. It situates this theory in a new place - a realm of the popular - in such a way that any reader will be ready to do important curriculum work in response." -- Education Review, July 13, 2001

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