With this book, Keneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the center
of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are
increasingly being drugged to compete on standardized tests, to
increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed
with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates. Saltman describes the
material stakes in what he calls the education drugs attention
complex, namely: educational profiteering through the mutually
supportive sales of drugs and testing products; drugs and digital
screen technologies; drugs and trauma/resilience programs; and drugs
and the school to prison pipeline. He shows how each of these examples
are part of a vast interlocking drug and attention industry in which
pharma and tech companies are commercializing and producing youth
problems for profit and are targeting the most vulnerable young
people. The book covers the prevalence of screen addiction, the misuse
of hormone therapies for transgenders youth, anxiety and trauma
medication, the connection between race and drugs, and in the final
chapter offers critical, democratic, and practical solutions for
educators and policy makers to tackle these issues.
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The Drug Attention Industrial Complex in Education
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781350440029
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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