Academia and higher learning in popular culture. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marcus K. Harmes, Richard Scully.
• Editors: Harmes, Marcus K; Scully, Richard
• Contents: 1 Unseen Universities and Seen Academics – An IntroductionMarcus Harmes and Richard Scully 2 Absurdism and Entanglement as an Academic Parallel in Terry Pratchett's 'Unseen University'Victoria Hawco 3 A Well-Rounded Dick? Academia in 3rd Rock from the SunMelissa Beattie 4 'I'm a doctor of many things': Tracking the Doctor's Relationship to Traditional Pedagogic Models of Knowledge Creation across Doctor WhoCatriona Mills 5 'Do what you like with him': Sherlock Homes' academic training and how it changed over timeJochem Kotthaus 6 Women in the Ivory Tower: Historical Memory and the Heroic Educator in Mona Lisa Smile (2003)Ana Stevenson 7 Gods and Monsters in the Ruined University: Filmic Teachers and their Moral Pedagogies from The Faculty to Higher LearningSusan Hopkins 8 A Different Sort of Monster: Science Fiction Casts a Spotlight on the Problematic Power Dynamics of Graduate ProgramsKristine Larsen 9 Dystopian Higher Education: A Neoliberal LegacyStacy W. Maddern 10 Dark Comedies/Dark Universities: Negotiating the Neoliberal Institution in British Satirical Comedies The History Man (1981), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-1988) and Campus (2011)Bethan Michael-Fox and Kay Calver 11 A Doctor Who Academy for Dystopian TimesRobin Redmon Wright 12 ConclusionsMarcus Harmes and Richard Scully.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 306.43; Educational anthropology; Education, Higher -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031323508
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