1st Edition

Schooling, Human Capital and Civilization A Brief History from Antiquity to the Digital Era

By Bruce Moghtader Copyright 2024
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in generating policies and practices that govern curriculum studies as an academic field. Using an inquiry approach and offering an intellectual history of human capital theory through a genealogical methodology, the author begins by contextualizing the... Read more

Introduction. 1. To rule with justice. 2. Humans as property. 3. Human-God-Machine. 4. Utilitarianism and market divinity. 5. Human capital theory. 6. Understanding the present.

Biography

Bruce Moghtader is an instructor in the Department of Educational Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada.