Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Why Childhood Ex Machina?
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Chapter 2
Franken-Education, or When Science Runs Amok
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Chapter 3
The Monstrous Voice: M.R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
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Chapter 4
Toy Gory, or the Ontology of Chucky: Childhood and Killer Dolls
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Chapter 5
Through the Black Mirror: Innocence, Abuse, and Justice in “Shut Up and Dance”
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Chapter 6
Your Android Ain’t Funky (or Robots Can’t Find the Good Foot): Race, Power, and Children in Otherworldly Imaginations
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Chapter 7
Tension, Sensation, and Pedagogy: Depictions of Childhood’s Struggle in Saga and Paper Girls
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Chapter 8
A Utopian Mirror: Reflections from the Future of Childhood and Education in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Island
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Chapter 9
Filling the Mind: Cortical Knowledge Uploads, Didactic Downloads and the Problem of Learning in the Future
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Chapter 10
Heretic Gnosis: Education, Children, and the Problem of Knowing Otherwise
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Chapter 11
“Life is a Game, So Fight for Survival”: The Neoliberal Logics of Educational Colonialism within the Battle Royale Franchise
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Chapter 12
Children and Pedagogy Between Science and Fiction
Attention for Chapter 8:
A Utopian Mirror: Reflections from the Future of Childhood and Education in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Island