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Subject(s)

• Science museums—Educational aspects [Browse]
• Industrial museums—Educational aspects [Browse]
• Science—Social aspects [Browse]
• Technology—Social aspects [Browse]
• Science museums—Environmental aspects [Browse]
• Industrial museums—Environmental aspects [Browse]

Series

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.); v. 49. [More in this series]
• Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education ; vol. 49

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-287) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Ch. 1. Of Beginnings, Questions, and Answers
• Place. Ch. 2. On the Nature of Science and Its Relation to Culture. Robot World Prelude 1. Ch. 3. On Subjectivity, Reflexivity, and Autobiography. Robot World Prelude 2
• Trace. Ch. 4. On Recontextualizing Institutions. Ch. 5. Tracing Robot World. Ch. 6. Retracing Robot World. Robot World Prelude 3
• Space. Ch. 7. Experience in Robot World. Robot World Postlude 1. Ch. 8. "Education" versus "Entertainment" Robot World Postlude 2.

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ISBN

0820437247 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96037865^//r98

OCLC

36023930

RCP

H - S

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