Zombies in the academy : living death in higher education /: living death in higher education. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrew Whelan, Ruth Walker and Christopher Moore.
• Editors: Whelan, Andrew; Walker, Ruth, 1969-; Moore, Christopher
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; SECTION 1: Zombification in the corporate university; First as tragedy, then as corpse; 'Being' post-death at Zombie University; University life, zombie states and reanimation; The living dead and the dead living: contagion and complicity incontemporary universities; Zombie solidarity; The Journal of Doctor Wallace; SECTION 2: Moribund content and infectious technologies; Zombie processes and undead technologies; The botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish; The intranet of the living dead: software and universities. Virtual learning environments and the zombifi cation of learningand teaching in British universitiesMapping zombies: a guide for digital pre-apocalyptic analysisand post-apocalyptic survival; Infectious textbooks; SECTION 3Zombie literacies and pedagogies; Undead universities, the plagiarism 'plague', paranoia andhypercitation; EAP programmes feeding the living dead of academia: criticalthinking as a global antibody; Zombies in the classroom: education as consumption in twonovels by Joyce Carol Oates; Queer pedagogies in zombie times: parody, neo-liberalism andhigher education. Zombies are us: the living dead as a tool for pedagogicalrefl ectionEscaping the zombie threat by mathematics; Toward a zombie pedagogy: embodied teaching and thestudent 2.0; SECTION 4:The post-apocalyptic terrain; 'Sois mort et tais toi': zombie mobs and student protests; Living-dead man's shoes? Teaching and researching glossy topicsin a harsh social and cultural context; Feverish homeless cannibal; A report on the global Viral-Z outbreak and its impact onhigher education; Bibliography; List of contributors; Index; Back Cover.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 378.01; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives; Zombiism; Education; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives; Zombiism; Hochschule; Universität; Zombie; Geisteswissenschaften; Krise; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783200757; 1783200758; 9781783200764; 1783200766
• Related ISBNs: 9781841507149; 1841507148
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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