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.
| ISBN: | 9780820437248 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 1998 |
| Author: | Matthew Weinstein |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 291 pages |
| Series: | Counterpoints : Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education |
| Genres: |
Society and culture: general Education |
How do goals of education and entertainment conflict in popularizations of science? In schools?
Robot World features in the following genres: Society and culture: general, Education
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Robot World was written by Matthew Weinstein and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Robot World has 291 pages
Yes it is part of Counterpoints : Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education series