The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering

by Kenneth J. Saltman

The past decade has seen a vast expansion of resilience pedagogies, policies, and products in public education, from the Every Student Succeeds Act to social and emotional learning to grit. Educational apps, avatars, and games as well as behaviorist techniques, meditation programs, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber schools, education brokers, global democracy promotion companies, and dropout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350342408
• ISBN13: 9781350342408
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"