Teaching & Learning: Faculty Publications
Shadows of the Past: Historical Interpretation, Propaganda Awareness, and the Story of Ender Wiggin
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
Toward Teaching Democracy with Post-modern and Popular Culture Texts
DOI
10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_14
Abstract
Popular science fiction provides classroom teachers multiple rich opportunities to adopt a critical lens in examining the ways in which governments and their people interact. Given the highly contested nature of both the social and natural sciences presently in the schools – particularly because of the ways in which these subject areas impact the political arena at the local, regional, and national levels – these serve as excellent fora in which to use popular science fiction to teach about and around socioscientific issues (SSI) and controversial public issues (CPI).
Recommended Citation
Brkich, Christopher Andrew, Tim Barko, Katie L. Brkich.
2014.
"Shadows of the Past: Historical Interpretation, Propaganda Awareness, and the Story of Ender Wiggin."
Toward Teaching Democracy with Post-modern and Popular Culture Texts: 221-238 Boston: Sense Publishers.
doi: 10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_14
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/teaching-learning-facpubs/36
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