Screen LibraryEducation in the age of biocapitalism Optimizing educational life for a flat world /
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New frontiers in education, culture and politics
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137027832 |
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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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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137027825, 2012. |
| Carrier Form: | 220 p. : 3 b&w, line drawings. |
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9781137027818 9781137027832 : 1137027835 : |
| CLC: | G571.2 |
| Contents: | 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 AquAdvantage(R) Salmon from an ANT: Actor Network Theory and Education in the Postgenomic Era PART III: GOVERNING STUDENTS FOR A FL |