The Book

Ta daaaaa! We wrote a book!

It’s called Pedagodzilla: Exploring the Realm of Pedagogy. It’s a playful exploration of the big pedagogic paradigms, through the lens of daft pop culture questions and tiny atomic monsters.

We’ve released it both as an OER (Open Educational Resource) under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and as a paperback. This means you can use it in your own teaching and practice and share it, just make sure to name drop us in the process (and let us know, we’d love to know how folk are using it!).

If, like us, you like to have a tactile paper version to hold, cherish, nibble and get you away from that damned computer screen then you can pick up a paperback copy via Amazon. All royalties go towards covering the podcast and book production costs, so picking up a copy helps us out a lot!

We think it’s come out really well, but don’t take our word for it:

‘Pedagodzilla is a refreshingly playful mash-up of learning theories and popular culture. Drawing on movies, tv shows, and video games, it exemplifies alternate perspectives of learning in a way that is accessible and fun as well as being academically rigorous. There are also many drawings of dinosaurs and at least three references to towels. What’s not to love?’

Prof Nic Whitton, Professor of Digital Learning and Play, Northumbria University

‘This book eloquently (and sometimes hilariously) explains the basics of pedagogic theory using pop culture. I learned something in the very first chapter I read!’

Daisy Abbott, Research Developer, Glasgow School of Art

Download and share the OER Chapters

We’ve made the individual chapters available as OER downloads for your reading and referencing pleasure! If you find them useful in your practice, drop us a note to let us know!

Chapter 1: Introduction: I am Pedagodzilla – hear me roar!Download
Chapter 2: How do spooky Muppets guide Scrooge through transformative learning?Download
Chapter 3: Come Dunning with me, Kruger! How do you know if what you are serving up is any good?Download
Chapter 4: How do ontology and epistemology help you eliminate Jar Jar Binks with headcan(n)ons? Part 1Download
Chapter 5: Yeah, but do ontology and epistemology help you eliminate Jar Jar Binks with headcan(n)ons? Part 2Download
Chapter 6: Mapping the Realm of PedagogyDownload
Chapter 7: How does behaviourism help players catch ’em all in Pokémon Go?Download
Chapter 8: Was Yoda an effective supply teacher (and would he have been better if he’d used Barak Rosenshine’s ten principles of instruction)?Download
Chapter 9: How does The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy help Arthur Dent take a cognitive load off?Download
Chapter 10: How does Julie Andrews escape the Nazis with active learning?Download
Chapter 11: How does problem-based learning help Buffy the Vampire Slayer…er, slay vampires?Download
Chapter 12: Does Neo really experience experiential learning in The Matrix?.Download
Chapter 13: How can you make constructivism amount to more than a hill of beans?Download
Chapter 14: How does social constructivism enable the Fellowship of the Ring to find the path to success?Download
Chapter 15: How does Arnie keep his skin on through situative learning in the movie PredatorDownload
Chapter 16: From n00b to l33t. How communities of practice provide a route into World of WarcraftDownload
Chapter 17: How did the Apollo 13 crew use constructionism to return safely to Earth?Download
Epilogue: Journey’s end or there and back againDownload

Pedagodzilla: Exploring the Realm of Pedagogy © 2024 by Childs, Ferguson, Collins, Ellis is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

First edition, 2024

ISBN: 9798320499055