Title
Education in the age of biocapitalism [electronic resource] : optimizing educational life for a flat world / Clayton Pierce.
ISBN
9781137027832 electronic book
9781137027818 hardcover
9781137027825 paperback
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
LC1085.2 .P56 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/035
Summary
"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 top' are involving schools in a project to manage and regulate educational life for competing in a new 'flat world'. Understanding the educational present, this work argues, requires individuals to consider what advanced industrialized nations across the globe are viewing as the future. Biocapitalist development in areas such as genetic engineering, drug therapies, and cellular cloning is the promissory future driving nations like the U.S. to out-compete and out-educate one another at any cost. This book assesses the implications for education in the biocapitalist era and points to alternative futures not based on such a vision of life and its productive potential"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
New frontiers in education, culture, and politics.
Introduction: biopolitics and education: a return to the question of life and school
Learning to be Homo economicus on the plantation: a brief history of human capital metrics
Schooling for value-added life: the making of educational biocapital
engineering promissory future(s): rethinking scientific literacy in the era of biocapitalsim
Learning about AquAdvantage Salmon for an ANT: actor network theory and education in the postgenomic era
The biomedicalization of kids: psychotropic drugs and biochemical governing in high-stakes schooling.
