TY - JOUR
T1 - Shadows of the Past: Historical Interpretation, Propaganda Awareness, and the Story of Ender Wiggin
AU - Brkich, Christopher Andrew
AU - Barko, Tim
AU - Brkich, Katie L.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Popular science fiction provides classroom teachers multiple rich opportunities to adopt a critical lens in examining the ways in which governments and their people interact. Given the highly contested nature of both the social and natural sciences presently in the schools – particularly because of the ways in which these subject areas impact the political arena at the local, regional, and national levels – these serve as excellent fora in which to use popular science fiction to teach about and around socioscientific issues (SSI) and controversial public issues (CPI).
AB - Popular science fiction provides classroom teachers multiple rich opportunities to adopt a critical lens in examining the ways in which governments and their people interact. Given the highly contested nature of both the social and natural sciences presently in the schools – particularly because of the ways in which these subject areas impact the political arena at the local, regional, and national levels – these serve as excellent fora in which to use popular science fiction to teach about and around socioscientific issues (SSI) and controversial public issues (CPI).
KW - Ender Wiggin
KW - Historical interpretation
KW - Propaganda
UR - https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/teaching-learning-facpubs/36
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_14
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_14
DO - 10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_14
M3 - Article
JO - Toward Teaching Democracy with Post-modern and Popular Culture Texts
JF - Toward Teaching Democracy with Post-modern and Popular Culture Texts
ER -