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Generation Z

Zombies, Popular Culture and Educating Youth

  • 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

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Victoria Carrington, Esther Priyadharshini, Jennifer Rowsell, Rebecca Westrup
    Pages 1-7
  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Preface Zombies Today

      • Sarah Juliet Lauro
      Pages 11-19
  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. Staying Up Late Watching The Walking Dead

      • Jennifer Rowsell
      Pages 101-113
  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. Zombies, Monsters and Education: The Creation of the Young Citizen

      • Rosalyn Black, Emily M. Gray, Deana Leahy
      Pages 159-172
    3. Killing Me Softly

      • Peter Hurd
      Pages 173-183
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 185-187

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Victoria Carrington, Esther Priyadharshini, Rebecca Westrup

  • Faculty of Education, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University, St Catharines, Canada

    Jennifer Rowsell

About the editors

Victoria Carrington is Professor of Education in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia. She researches and writes extensively in the areas of new technologies, youth and literacies with a particular interest in the impact of new digital media on literacy practices both in and out of school. Her work has drawn attention to issues of text production, identity and literacy practices within the affordances of digital technologies and new media.
 
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

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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