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.

Autorentext
Clayton Pierce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, Culture, & Society at the University of Utah, USA.

Inhalt
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® 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