Overview
- Considers 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
Part of the book series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (CSTE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jennifer Rowsell is Professor and Canada Research Chair at Brock University. She has co-written and written several books in the areas of New Literacy Studies, multimodality, and multiliteracies. Her current research interests include children’s digital and immersive worlds; adopting and applying multimodal epistemologies with adolescents and teenagers; and ecological work in communication
Esther Priyadharshini is Senior Lecturer in education at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK. She has a
keen interest in the area of cultural studies in education, particularly around the broad themes of food, sex and death. Her research uses post-colonial, post-structural and feminist theories to understand educational encounters/sites. She is the associate editor of the Cambridge Journal of Education.
Rebecca Westrup is a Lecturer in Education at the Universit
y of EastAnglia. Her research interests are primary concerned with young people, education and identity and how aspects of psychology and sociology intersect with educational experiences. In particular she is interested in students’ experiences of assessment in compulsory and post-compulsory education and the (re)shaping of their learner identities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Generation Z
Book Subtitle: Zombies, Popular Culture and Educating Youth
Editors: Victoria Carrington, Jennifer Rowsell, Esther Priyadharshini, Rebecca Westrup
Series Title: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-934-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-932-5Published: 29 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5729-9Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-934-9Published: 17 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2345-7708
Series E-ISSN: 2345-7716
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Literacy, Regional and Cultural Studies