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

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.

List 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

About the author

Anijar, Karen

Summary

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

• Authors: Karen Anijar, Anijar Karen
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2000
• EAN: 9780815325246
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2524-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Pedagogy and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Learning, Philosophy & theory of education, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy and theory of education