This book invites readers to both reassess and reconceptualize definitions of childhood and pedagogy by imagining the possibilities – past, present, and future – provided by the aesthetic turn to science fiction. It explores constructions of children, childhood, and pedagogy through the multiple lens of science fiction as a method of inquiry, and discusses what counts as science fiction and why science fiction counts.The book examines the notion of relationships in a variety of genres and stories; probes affect in the convergence of childhood and science fiction; focuses on questions of pedagogy and the ways that science fiction can reflect the status quo of schooling theory, practice, and policy as well as offer alternative educative possibilities; and explores connections between children and childhood studies, pedagogy and posthumanism, and science fiction as the frame of reference through which theoretical links between inquiry and narrative grounded in theories of media studies can be developed. weiterlesen