Brain-Targeted Teaching and the Biopolitical Child

Jessica Pykett; Tom Disney

doi:10.1007/978-981-4585-57-6_22

Brain-Targeted Teaching and the Biopolitical Child

Jessica Pykett, Tom Disney

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Abstract

Recent debates within the field of geographies of children and young people have highlighted the political tensions associated with the use of particular forms of knowledge about the body, brain, and behavior in the practices of governing “life itself”. This chapter offers an introduction to these debates. It uses the emergence of educational and social policies directed at children’s brains and influenced by neuroscientific knowledge to illustrate some of the geographical issues at stake in the making up of the biopolitical child.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Politics, Citizenship and Rights
Editors	Kirsi Pauliina Kallio, Sarah Mills, Tracey Skelton
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	22
Pages	133-152
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-4585-57-6
ISBN (Print)	978-981-4585-56-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-57-6_22
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2016

Keywords

Neuroscience
Neuroeducation
Biosocial
Biopolitics
Emotions
Behavior
Brains
Context

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