Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: Why childhood ex machina?.- Part I Relationship.- Franken-education, or when science runs amok.- The monstrous voice: M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts.- Toy Gory, or the Ontology of Chucky: Childhood and killer dolls.- Part II Affect.- Through the Black Mirror: Innocence, abuse, and justice in "Shut Up and Dance".- Your Android Ain't Funky (or Robots Can't Find the Good Foot): Race, Power, and Children in Otherworldy Imaginations.- Tension, Sensation, and Pedagogy: Depictions of Childhood's Struggle in Saga and Paper Girls.- Part III Pedagogy.- A Utopian Mirror: Reflections from the future of childhood and education in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Island.- Filling the mind: Cortical knowlege uploads, didactic downloads, and the problem of learning in the future.- Heretic Gnosis: Education, children, and the problem of knowing otherwise.- "Life is a Game, So Fight for Survival" The neoliberal logic of educational colonialism within the Battle Royale Franchise.- Part IV Conclusion.- Children and Pedagogy Between Science and Fiction.