Saltman Scripted Bodies

Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-19933-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 134 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Interventions

Institutions and public policy have embraced ever more repressive controls over the physical space of schools that now include arrests of young children, prison technologies, metal detectors, arming teachers, drugging students, biometric tracking systems, 'close-captioned' TV surveillance systems, Zero Tolerance, and military personnel recruited to teach and lead. These spaces of control are accompanied by repressive pedagogies that not only standardize the curriculum, time, and space of school but also control the bodies of youth and teachers.

Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understood in relation to the broader economic, political, and cultural forces that have produce an increasingly authoritarian society. This book details how these new forms of corporeal control shut down the possibility of public schools developing as places where critical thinking becomes the organizing principle needed to contribute to a more equal, just, and democratic society. Moreover, Scripted Bodies examines how this corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that different technologies are integral to these new expressions of control.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saltman, Kenneth J.

Saltman, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Smart Drugs: Corporate Profit and Corporeal Control

2. The Austerity School: Grit, Character, and the Privatization of Public Education

3. Biometric Analytic Pedagogy: Control of Students and Teachers and the Assault on Thinking

4. Corporate Educational Reform and the Making of the New Forced Consumption: Educational Technology and the Destruction of Teachers as Public Intellectuals

5. Learning to Be a Psychopath: The Pedagogy of the Corporation

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth J. Saltman is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where he teaches courses in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies PhD Program.