Governing Education: Policy, Biologies, and the Politics of Life Itself

P. Taylor Webb | UVic and CEHIC | April 9 and April 10, 2018

Tuesday, 10 April 2018 , Olot

Governing Education: Policy, Biologies, and the Politics of Life Itself

Governing Education: Policy, Biologies, and the Politics of Life Itself

I completed two presentations while at Faber. Both talks centred on the many ways policy governs education. On April 9, 2018, I spoke to members of the Facultat d’Educació, Traducció i Ciències Humanes at the University of Vic (UVIC), at the request of Associate Professor Jordi Collet. There, I provided an overview of how education policy has historically functioned in different ways to govern schooling, and in relation to different historical periods of economics. The second half of the talk outlined some of my current research into education policy governance, including studies of performance accountability, school choice and race, and artificial intelligence. It was wonderful to have Dr. Stephen Ball in attendance, who contributed to our fantastic discussion. On April 10, 2018, I spoke to members of the Centre d’Història de la Ciència in the Faculty of Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). There, I discussed some of the historical problems associated with using biology in education policy and governance. The second half of my talk outlined how recent advances in neurobiology would alter some of these education histories, but simultaneously provide education and schooling with new governing challenges including biosociality, molecularization, optimization, and bio-economics.

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