Dystopia and Education : Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of Utopia-Gone-Wrong.
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- Studies in the Philosophy of Education Series .
- Studies in the Philosophy of Education Series .
Intro -- Dystopia and Education -- Insights Into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of Utopia-Gone-Wrong -- A Volume in Studies in the Philosophy of Education -- Series Editor: John E. Petrovic, The University of Alabama -- CONTENTS -- Studies in the Philosophy of Education -- Dystopia and Education -- Insights Into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of Utopia-Gone-Wrong -- Missouri State University -- Information Age Publishing, Inc. -- Charlotte, North Carolina www.infoagepub.com -- Foreword -- Dystopia and Education -- William Ayers -- References -- Preface -- Dystopia and Education? -- Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield -- Dystopia: A Brief History -- The Contemporary Educational Context -- Learning to See Dystopia -- Structure -- Insights into Democratic Education -- Notes -- References -- Figure 1. Photos taken by the editors at the 2012 NATO protest in Chicago. -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I: THEORY -- DYSTOPIAN THEORY: CAN WE SEE WHAT WE HAVE NOT YET THEORIZED? -- Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield -- CHAPTER 1 -- An Aesthetic of Horror in Education -- Schools as Dystopian Environments -- Kerry Freedman -- Introduction -- The Aesthetic of Horror -- Dystopian Environments -- Dystopian Aesthetics and the Visual Culture of School -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 2 -- Youth, the Self, And Violence -- A Hegelian Analysis of Fight Club -- Kip Kline -- Critical Dystopia and Henry Giroux's Critique of Fight Club -- Fight Club and the Struggle for Selfhood -- Hegel, Selfhood, and Fight Club -- Hegel and Selfhood and Mead's Social Theory of Self -- The Desire for Recognition: Reformulated Praxis Theory and Expressivism -- Violence and Self-Formation -- Youth, Schools, and Selfhood -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3 -- Merit, Democracy, Governing -- Benjamin Baez -- Introduction -- Governing -- Merit -- Democracy. Governing, Revisited -- References -- CHAPTER 4 -- Dyst(r)opia -- A Tropological Argument for Dystopia and Education -- F. Tony Carusi -- Introduction -- The Place that Took a Wrong Turn: Dyst(r)opia -- To Rhino or Not to Rhino2 -- The Constitutive Ground of Exclusion -- The NCLB Deadlock -- Dyst(r)opian Policy Analysis -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 5 -- Tests, Consumerism, and the Cruel Drone of White Noise -- Andrew N. McKnight -- Introduction -- Faith in Testing -- Consumerism as Master -- Parallels in White Noise -- Being More Humane/Cutting Through the White Noise -- References -- section ii: Praxis -- DYSTOPIAN PRACTICE OR PRAXIS? -- Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield -- CHAPTER 6 -- Dystopian Love Manifested in a Dystopian Aesthetic -- Insights Into Contemporary Educational Practice From A Clockwork Orange -- Eric C. Sheffield -- Introduction -- The Body of Alex as a Dystopian Space -- A Dystopian Aesthetic in Two Parts -- Dystopian Love -- Implications for Practice -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 7 -- Lessons From Elsewhere -- or, Rethinking Democracy and Public Education Through Lois Lowry's The Giver -- Eric D. Smith and Philip E. Kovacs -- Introduction -- Sameness as Argument for Security -- The Elimination of Curricular Choice -- The End of History and the Regulation of Language -- Surveillance Seen and Unseen -- Love as Ontological Force -- Schooling for Elsewhere -- References -- CHAPTER 8 -- When Undergraduate Students Read Huxley's Brave New World and Plato's The Republic in an Educational Foundations Course -- Steven P. Jones -- Introduction -- Parallel Themes in the Two Texts: The Caste System and Noble Lies -- Sexual Desire, Family, and Music -- The Allegory of the Cave -- Excerpts from Student Essays -- The Task of the Foundations of Education Class -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 9. "Unlearning" With the Dystopian Youth -- Sating Student Hunger With The Hunger Games -- Becky L. Noel Smith -- Constructing the Dystopian Youth -- "Unlearning" in The Hunger Games -- Exploring Our District -- Fabricating the Arena -- Midgame Rule Changes -- Sustenance as Resistance -- Sating Hunger in Grace's Class -- "Challenging" Our Youth -- A Suggestion: Support Students Through Meaningful Struggle -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 10 -- Gaming as Virtual Education -- Insights From Dystopian Art -- Stefan J. Sheffield -- Introduction -- Video Games as Dystopian Art -- Bioshock, Atlas Shrugged and Dystopian Art -- Video Games as Educational Tools -- Note -- References -- section iii: Policy -- ARE UTOPIAN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES INHERENTLY DYSTOPIAN? -- Jessica A. Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield -- CHAPTER 11 -- In Search of Equal Educational Opportunity for Harrison Bergeron -- John E. Petrovic -- Introduction -- Formalist versus Actualist Renderings of Equality -- Capitalism, Democracy, and Sameness -- Formal and Actual Equal Educational Opportunity -- Conclusion: What is EEO for Harrison Bergeron? -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 12 -- An Educational Dystopia -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Race To The Top -- Bradley D. Rowe and Taylor Lacy Klassman -- Introduction -- Romanticism and Education -- Frankenstein -- Racing to the Top, Creating Monsters -- Concluding Remarks: Challenging Dystopia with Love -- References -- CHAPTER 13 -- Orwell's 1984 and Education as Commodity Spectacle -- Dennis Attick -- Introduction -- Education as Spectacle -- Spectacle and Surveillance in Race to the Top Schooling -- References -- CHAPTER 14 -- Dystopia, Disciplinarity, and Governmentality -- A Foucauldian Analysis of the Novels of Isamu Fukui -- Joshua Garrison and Leslee Grey -- Introduction -- Carceral Education -- Useful Vagrancy -- Successful Schooling. Dystopian Disciplinarity -- The Disciplines, Governmentality, and the Coup d'état -- Truancy's Educational Coup -- References -- CHAPTER 15 -- Education's Handmaids? -- The Role of the Teacher in the Age of Accountability -- Alison Happel and Becky Atkinson -- Introduction -- Brief Plot Summary of The Handmaid's Tale -- Conceptual Framework: Feminist Poststructuralism and Pastoral Power -- Pastoral Power in Education and The Handmaid's Tale -- Salvation -- Self-Sacrifice and Individualization -- Surveillance With Confession -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 16 -- All I Really Needed to Know About Tolerance I Learned From Zombies -- Nick McDonald and Rick McDonald -- Introduction -- The Zombie Craze -- Son -- Father -- Son -- Father -- Son -- Father -- Son -- Father -- Conclusion -- References -- about the contributors.