Pierce Education in the Age of Biocapitalism

Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-02783-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 211 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics

Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman. This is the first book to examine its implications for education and how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pierce, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Biopolitics and Education: A Return to the Question of Life in Schools PART I: ORIGINS OF EDUCATIONAL BIOCAPITAL 1. Learning to be Homo economicus on the Plantation: A Brief History of Human Capital Metrics 2. Schooling for Value-Added Life: The Making of Educational Biocapital PART II: PROMISSORY FUTURE(S): LEARNING THE SCIENCE OF LIFE 3. Engineering Promissory Future(s): Rethinking Scientific Literacy in the Era of Biocapitalism 4. Learning about AquAdvantage® Salmon from an ANT: Actor Network Theory and Education in the Postgenomic Era PART III: GOVERNING STUDENTS FOR A FLAT WORLD AND ALTERNATIVES 5. The Biomedicalization of Kids: Psychotropic Drugs and Biochemical Governing in High Stakes Schooling Epilogue: Alternative Futures of Education: Exiting Education for Biocapital

Über Autor(innen)

Clayton Pierce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, Culture, & Society at the University of Utah, USA.