04747nam 22008175 450 991079108950332120230810141536.01-137-02782-71-137-02783-510.1057/9781137027832(CKB)2550000001189935(EBL)1138385(OCoLC)829459934(SSID)ssj0000831208(PQKBManifestationID)12355996(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831208(PQKBWorkID)10822133(PQKB)11452504(DE-He213)978-1-137-02783-2(MiAaPQ)EBC1138385(EXLCZ)99255000000118993520151222d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEducation in the Age of Biocapitalism[electronic resource] Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World /by C. Pierce1st ed. 2013.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (221 p.)New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics,2945-6827Description based upon print version of record.1-137-02781-9 1-299-26226-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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 """"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 ""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.New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics,2945-6827EducationPhilosophyEducationEducationCurriculaSciencePhilosophyEducational sociologyPhilosophy of EducationEducationCurriculum StudiesPhilosophy of ScienceEducational PhilosophySociology of EducationEducationPhilosophy.Education.EducationCurricula.SciencePhilosophy.Educational sociology.Philosophy of Education.Education.Curriculum Studies.Philosophy of Science.Educational Philosophy.Sociology of Education.378.1035EDU000000bisacshPierce Cauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1532437BOOK9910791089503321Education in the Age of Biocapitalism3778573UNINA