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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791089503321

Autore

Pierce C

Titolo

Education in the Age of Biocapitalism [[electronic resource] ] : Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World / / by C. Pierce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-137-02782-7

1-137-02783-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics, , 2945-6827

Classificazione

EDU000000

Disciplina

378.1035

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Education

Education - Curricula

Science - Philosophy

Educational sociology

Philosophy of Education

Curriculum Studies

Philosophy of Science

Educational Philosophy

Sociology of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Introduction: Biopolitics and Education: A Return to the Question of Life and School                                                                                           ""; ""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                                                                                                    



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""4 Learning about AquAdvantage® Salmon from an ANT: Actor Network Theory and Education in the Postgenomic Era                                                                                                                   """"Part III Biological Citizenship in a Flat World: Governmentalities of Optimization and Their Alternatives                                                                                                                ""

""5 The Biomedicalization of Kids: Psychotropic Drugs and Biochemical Governing in High-Stakes Schooling                                                                                                             """"Epilogue               ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""

Sommario/riassunto

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.