Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230300392

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Teacher Training

Cover
Contents
List of Tables
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
A Chronology of Significant Works
Introduction
1 Through Time and Space: A Brief History of Science Fiction
2 Theorizing Science Fiction: The Question of Terminology
3 Utopia, Anti-Utopia and Science Fiction
4 Teaching the Scientific Romance
5 Teaching Pulp Science Fiction
6 Good SF: Teaching the Golden Age as Cultural History
7 Teaching the New Wave
8 Postmodernism, Postmodernity and the Postmodern: Telling Local Stories at the End of Time
9 Teaching Gender and Science Fiction
10 Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction
11 Teaching Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy in English: A Case Study
12 Teaching Science and Science Fiction: A Case Study
13 Design, Delivery and Evaluation
References, Resources and Further Reading
Index