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Education in the Age of Biocapitalism: Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World (New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics)

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As an economic model built on finding and creating new commodities from existing forms of life, biocapitalism has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature and culture and thus relations between humans and nonhumans. How, for example, should educators, students, and communities respond to developments such as the first genetically engineered animal made for human consumption, powerful new psychotropic drugs designed to target behavioral 'disorders' in students, genetic explanations of learning and intelligence, and new methods of educational assessment interested in determining the added value of students and teachers in the classroom? Education in the Age of Biocapitalism is the first book to not only chart how education should respond to the historic challenges of living in a biocapitalist society but also to examine how human-capital understandings of education have merged with the productive paradigm of biocapitalism interested in extracting the most value out of life.

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Biocapitalism, an economic model built on finding and creating new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman entities. How should educators, students, and communities respond to such developments as the first genetically engineered animal made for human consumption, powerful new psychotropic drugs designed to target behavioral disorders, genetic explanations of learning and intelligence, and new methods of educational assessment interested in determining the added value of students and teachers in the classroom? Education in the Age of Biocapitalism is the first book to not only chart how education should respond to the historic challenges of living in a biocapitalist society, but also to examine how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism.

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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.
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About the Author

Clayton Pierce is an associate professor in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society in the College of Education at the University of Utah.

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Table of Contents

The Promissory Future(s) of Education: Rethinking Schooling in the Biocapitalist Era*Biopolitics and Education: A Return to the Question of Life and Schools*The Valorization of Kids: Value Added Schooling and its Biopolitical Implications*How the 'Flat World' was Discovered: The Entwinement of Educational and Economic Crisis*Managing Educational Life through Biopharmacueticals: The Biomedicalization of Students' Bodies*Groundwork for a Vital Politics of Education

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ISBN:
9781137027818
Author:
Pierce, Clayton
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Subject:
General education.
Subject:
Education-General
Subject:
Education-Higher Education
Subject:
Curricula
Subject:
Philosophy & Social Aspects
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
20130131
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
2
Pages:
220
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6 in
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Biocapitalism, an economic model built on finding and creating new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature and culture and between human and nonhuman entities. How should educators, students, and communities respond to such developments as the first genetically engineered animal made for human consumption, powerful new psychotropic drugs designed to target behavioral disorders, genetic explanations of learning and intelligence, and new methods of educational assessment interested in determining the added value of students and teachers in the classroom? Education in the Age of Biocapitalism is the first book to not only chart how education should respond to the historic challenges of living in a biocapitalist society, but also to examine how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism.
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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.
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