Education in the age of biocapitalism : optimizing educational life for a flat world /

"This book is an in-depth examination of the growing alignment between powerful global bioindustries and education reform in the U.S. Utilizing a biopolitical methodology, the book focuses on how value-added measures and other neoliberal strategies embedded in policies such as 'race to the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pierce, Clayton (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:New frontiers in education, culture, and politics.
Temas:
Academic-industrial collaboration > United States.
Biotechnology industries > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Neoliberalism > United States.
Collaboration université-industrie > États-Unis.
Bio-industries > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > États-Unis.
Néo-libéralisme > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Academic-industrial collaboration
Biotechnology industries
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Neoliberalism
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 AquAdvantageʼ 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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