Disaster education : : 'race', equity and pedagogy / / John Preston.
From ‘Duck and Cover’ in the 1950's, when American schoolchildren were instructed to hide beneath their desks in the event of nuclear attack to contemporary campaigns against pandemic flu, education campaigns have been used to prepare the general public for apocalyptic events. Governments have...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (125 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- What is Disaster Education?
- Social Justice, Whiteness and Disaster Education
- Mass Public Education for Preparing for Nuclear War – from Duck and Cover to Protect and Survive
- Dr. Strangelove I Presume? Race, Class and Tacit Intentionality in Public Education Campaigns for Nuclear War
- Citizenship Education and ‘Infrastructure Protection’
- Apocalypse now: Eurocentric fictions and Afrofuturist Reflections on Nuclear War
- Fixed and Mobile Bodies: Mass Casualty Plans and Survivalism for ‘Dirty Bomb’ Attacks
- Transmedia, Transhumanism and the ‘New’ Preparedness Paradigm
- Remaking, Rethinking and Resisting Disaster Education.