Robot World

Education, Popular Culture, and Science

Matthew Weinstein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

291 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3724-8 (ISBN)

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How do goals of education and entertainment conflict in popularizations of science? In schools? Robot World explores these questions through a case study of a hands-on science museum/theme park in a tourist center in the upper Midwestern United States. Mixing ethnography, autobiography, and science fiction, this book examines science's public cultures. In unraveling this dual interest of education and entertainment, it looks at how the association of wonder and science works ideologically. It explores how the technologies in the museum become props in specific racial and gender identity formations, and it examines the experiences of the body in the hands-on museum as the ultimate science lesson.

The Author: Matthew Weinstein is Assistant Professor and Director of Secondary Education at Macalester College, in St. Paul. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reihe/Serie	Counterpoints ; 49
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-8204-3724-7 / 0820437247
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3724-8 / 9780820437248
Zustand	Neuware