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

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Bruce Moghtader (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Schooling, Human Capital and Civilization

A Brief History from Antiquity to the Digital Era

Bruce Moghtader (University of British Columbia, Canada)

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Routledge
18 August 2023

Philosophy & theory of education; Educational strategies & policy; Curriculum planning & development; Schools; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

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 formation of the theory and explores its correlation with the history of imperialism. Tracing the concept of human capital from ancient slave societies to colonial empires, the book arrives at the modern formulations of the concept in education systems and explores its impact on curriculum and pedagogy in the digital age. Asking whether an approach that represented slaves, machines, animals, and property in its history is appropriate for forward-looking democratic societies, the author then uncovers crucial implications for educational equity and teacher development. Presenting a unique genealogy of schooling humans as economic resources and offering a descriptive and critical analysis of its impact on education as lived experience, the author excavates ideas and mentalities by which we think about modern schooling processes. This approach supports the intellectual development of teachers and offers a critical assessment of power-knowledge relations in curriculum studies. Discerning associations between the human capital theory of education and technological progress with implications for ethics in the digital age, it will be an outstanding resource for scholars and graduates working across comparative and international education, the history of education, curriculum studies, digital education, and curriculum theory.

By: Bruce Moghtader (University of British Columbia Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032422275
ISBN 10: 1032422270
Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 18 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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