Robot World: Education, Popular Culture, and Science - Couverture souple

Weinstein, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820437247 ISBN 13 : 9780820437248

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820437247
• ISBN 13: 9780820437248
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 291
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible