1st Edition
Science Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Education Mapping the Pedagogical Imagination
Introduction: Science Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Education
Graham B. Slater
1. Educational Futures and Social Justice
David W. Kupferman
2. “What is the Truth?”: On Teaching Paradoxes, Race, Family, and the Self with Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Laura K. Porterfield
3. Hospicing the Broken Earth: World-Building Stories as Worlding Stories
Christine Seon “Sol” Rheem
4. Speculative Critical Pedagogy: From Cultural to Ontological Politics
Asilia Franklin-Phipps and Tristan Gleason
5. After the End of Schools: Cultivating Abolitionist Visions for a World Without Carceral Education
Qui Dorian Alexander
6. Dreaming of an Otherworldly Elsewhere: A Black Girlhood Speculative Approach to Teacher Education
Tiffany Octavia Harris
7. Where No (Disabled) Person Has Gone Before: A Content Analysis of Star Trek through the Portrayal of Chrisopher Pike
Christine Selinger
8. Reproductive Futurity: Policy, Pop-Culture, and Praxis
S. Gavin Weiser and Linsay DeMartino
Biography
Graham B. Slater is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. He is author of Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education (2024) and co-editor of Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics (2017).
