Generation Z

This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models - such as 'childhood' and 'school', 'class' and 'family' - that so deeply underpin educational policy and practice as to be rendered invisible. It brings together authors from a range of disciplines to use contemporary zombie typologies - slave, undead, contagion - to examine the responsiveness of everyday practices of schooling such as literacy, curriculum and pedagogy to the new contexts in which children and young people develop their identities, attitudes to learning, and engage with the many publics that make up their everyday worlds.

keen interest in the area of cultural studies in education, particularly around the broad themes of food, sex and death. Her research uses post-colonial, post-structural and feminist theories to understand educational encounters/sites. She is the associate editor of the Cambridge Journal of Education.y of East Anglia. Her research interests are primary concerned with young people, education and identity and how aspects of psychology and sociology intersect with educational experiences. In particular she is interested in students' experiences of assessment in compulsory and post-compulsory education and the (re)shaping of their learner identities.