This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the future. Given the particular convergence of economic and governmental pressures in educational institutions today, schools represent imaginative sites especially well-suited to interrogation through an SF lens. The relevance for education of the exploration and interrogation of themes related to technology, human nature, and social organization is evident; yet the speculative fiction approach is unique in its harnessing of creative capacities to envision alternatives. The contributions in this collection are generated from educational experience and research, drawing on scholarship in curriculum studies and teacher education and on the authors' experiences and imaginations as teachers, teacher educators, educational scholars, and human beings.
Author(s): Diane Conrad, Sean Wiebe
Series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 398
City: Cham
Foreword: To Come …
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Speculative Fiction as Social Critique
Speculative Fiction and Education
Re-visioning Education
Engaging Change
Speculative Fiction in Curriculum Studies
Speculative Fiction and Posthumanism
Posthumanism and Afrofuturism
A Note on Posthuman Ethics
Posthumanism and Education
References
Part I: The Future of Technology in Education
Chapter 2: Ms. Smith Model T4
Chapter 3: The Unadorned
Chapter 4: The Time Tumblers
Chapter 5: The Translated-Life Crisis
Chapter 6: Subroutine
Part II: Corporate Interventions in Education
Chapter 7: GRADient
Chapter 8: Barren Harvest
Chapter 9: Hard to Imagine
Chapter 10: The Cutting Room
Part III: Speculations on Social Issues
Chapter 11: Oleanna in the Anthropocene
Characters
Part I: Plato’s Cave
Part II: Particle/Farming
PART III: The Anthropocene
PART IV: Interlude
Epilogue
Characters
Chapter 12: Aliens
Chapter 13: Life After Death
Chapter 14: The Past Is Never Past IsNeverPast
Part IV: Visions for Curricular Futures
Chapter 15: Gerty
Chapter 16: Sayonara Rob Sensei
Chapter 17: A+ in the Sunset
Disorder
Restlessness
Vine Filigree
Overgrown
Weighty Tomes
Soul Recognition
Destroyeth Heresy
From The Depths
Chapter 18: “Speak, Dog!” The 2039 Massey Lecture
Chapter 19: A Tail of the Land
Part V: The Role of Spirit in Education
Chapter 20: Heart of a Sapphire
Chapter 21: Cura, After All
Chapter 22: Reborn
Chapter 23: The Search for Spirit
Chapter 24: Perpetual Bloom
Part VI: Teaching and Learning with Our More-Than-Human Relations
Chapter 25: Centaurea Cyanus Revival
Chapter 26: Co-teaching with Fauna
Chapter 27: Pumpkin
Chapter 28: A Linden Tree in Tongerlo
Chapter 29: Protected Paradise
The Call
The Ride
The Check-In
The Arrival
The Conference
The Shift
The Insight
Study Questions and Suggested Readings
2. Ms. Smith Model T4
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
3. The Unadorned
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
4. The Time Tumblers
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
5. The Translated-Life Crisis
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
6. Subroutine
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
7. GRADient
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
8. Barren Harvest
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
9. Hard to Imagine
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
10. The Cutting Room
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
11. Oleanna in the Anthropocene
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
12. ALIENS
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
13. Life After Death
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
14. The Past Is Never Past IsNeverPast
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
15. Gerty
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
16. Sayonara Rob Sensei
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
17. A+ in the Sunset
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
18. Speak Dog! The 2039 Massey Lecture
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
19. A Tail of the Land
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
20. Heart of the Sapphire
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
21. Cura After All
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
22. Reborn
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
23. The Search for Spirit
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
24. Perpetual Bloom
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
25. Centaurea Cyanus Revival
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
26. Co-teaching with Fauna
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
27. Pumpkin
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
28. A Linden Tree in Tongerlo
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
29. Protected Paradise
Study Questions
Suggested Readings
