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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b11220424.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-287) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 291 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Robot world.".
- catalog identifier "0820437247 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Robot world.".
- catalog isPartOf "Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 49.".
- catalog isPartOf "Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education ; vol. 49".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Robot world.".
- catalog subject "306.4/5 21".
- catalog subject "Industrial museums Educational aspects.".
- catalog subject "Industrial museums Environmental aspects.".
- catalog subject "Q105.A1 W45 1998".
- catalog subject "Science Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Science museums Educational aspects.".
- catalog subject "Science museums Environmental aspects.".
- catalog subject "Technology Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Robot world : education, popular culture, and science / Matthew Weinstein.".
- catalog type "text".