Education in the Age of Capitalism
A new book by ECS Assistant Professor Clayton Pierce
“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/culture and human/nonhuman. How should educators, students, and communities
respond to things like 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 examines how human capital
understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism.”