Scripted bodies : corporate power, smart technologies, and the undoing of public education / Kenneth J. Saltman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saltman, Kenneth J., 1969- author.

Series:

Critical interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

School management and organization--Social aspects.

School management and organization.

Educational technology--Social aspects.

Educational technology.

Corporatization.

Privatization in education.

Business and education.

Physical Description:

ix, 124 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control. Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understood in relation to the broader economic, political, and cultural forces that have produced an increasingly authoritarian society. This book details how these new forms of corporeal control shut down the possibility of public schools developing as places where thinking becomes the organizing principle needed to contribute to a more equal, just, and democratic society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Smart drugs : corporate profit and corporeal control

The austerity school : grit, character, and the privatization of public education

Biometric analytic pedagogy : control of students and teachers and the assault on thinking

Corporate educational reform and the making of the new forced consumption : educational technology and the destruction of teachers as public intellectuals

Learning to be a psychopath : the pedagogy of the corporation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138675261

1138675261

9781138675278

113867527X

OCLC:

958083648