Education in the Age of Biocapitalism [electronic resource] : Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World /
Pierce, C.author.
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.
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""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 AquAdvantageÂ® 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            ""
Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Education.
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education—Curricula.
Philosophy and science.
Education—Philosophy.
Educational sociology.
Philosophy of Education.
Education, general.
Curriculum Studies.
Philosophy of Science.
Educational Philosophy.
Sociology of Education.