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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).
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Brkich, C.A., Barko, T., Brkich, K.L. (2014). Shadows of the Past. In: Paugh, P., Kress, T., Lake, R. (eds) Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_14
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