Education in the Age of Biocapitalism
Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World
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ISBN-13:
9781137027825
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.12.2012
Seiten:
211
Autor:
C. Pierce
Gewicht:
309 g
Format:
233x149x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
UNIQUE:The only book to offer an in-depth introduction and application of biopolitical critique in the field of education
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
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