Brain culture : shaping policy through neuroscience / [electronic resource]
Pykett, Jessica,author.
This unique book offers a timely analysis of the impact of rapidly advancing knowledge about the brain, mind and behaviour on contemporary public policy and practice. It analyses the global spread of research agendas, policy experiments and everyday practice informed by 'brain culture'.
BRAIN CULTURE; Contents; About the author ; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Introduction: governing through brain culture; Introducing the neuroskeptics; How does brain culture make people?; Why brain culture is not new: the Gothic brain world; How does brain culture re-invent citizens?; About Brain culture; 2. Brain culture in context; A psycho-spatial analysis of brain culture: understanding context; Old behavioural geography and new environmental psychology; Non-representational geographies and a neuropsychological encounter with free will; Contextual rationalities
Replacing neurogeography with a geography of brain culture3. Designing cerebral cities; Introduction; Brains and buildings; Designing learning spaces; Designing health(y) spaces; Urban design of behavioural environments; 4. Teaching the learning brain; Introduction; Research topics in the neuroscience of learning; Bridging the divide in the emerging neuroeducation; The rise of brain-based teaching: a revolution in practice?; Navigating the spaces between brain, mind and behaviour in educational contexts; Re-politicising neuroeducation; 5. Managing workplace emotions; Introduction
Human resource management, from job satisfaction to positive neuroscienceThe business and science of positive psychology: the emergence of austerity happiness; The adequately satisfied worker of the American dream; 6. Conclusion: what is at stake in the brain world?; From the bio-social to the psycho-spatial; Bio-social science; Psycho-spatial analysis; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2022).
This unique book offers a timely analysis of the impact of rapidly advancing knowledge about the brain, mind and behaviour on contemporary public policy and practice. It analyses the global spread of research agendas, policy experiments and everyday practice informed by 'brain culture'.
Neurosciences
Psychoanalysis and human geography
Brain