Robot World: Education, Popular Culture, and Science
Weinstein, Matthew
ISBN 10: 0820437247 ISBN 13: 9780820437248
Published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi, 1998
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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.
About the Author: 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.
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Title: Robot World: Education, Popular Culture, and...
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket