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Saltmans book takes us into new and frightening areas of educational excess and repression that focus on the body, and explores their impact on the possibilities of teaching and learning that is, the erasure of thinking. This is a nightmare world of apps, performance-enhancing drugs and big business. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical resources and up-to-the-minute data, this book is both terrifying and analytically stunning.

Stephen J. Ball, Institute of Education, University of London

In Scripted Bodies, Ken Saltman offers an engaging analysis of how pedagogical strategies easily become repressive. Saltman focuses on how new pedagogies manipulate students corporeal selves, an essential counterpoint to the ubiquitous psychological and behavioral orientations to cognitive and social-emotional aspects of learning and development. This book breaks down the mind-body distinction that permeates pedagogy, and situates pedagogy within a socio-political context defined by corporations and technologies. Saltman ends on a hopeful note of resistance to recapture genuine democratic conditions for schooling and beyond.

Sandra Mathison, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

This is possibly Saltmans masterwork. Its a heart-pounding and eye-opening account of the discipline-and-punish pedagogy that our children endure in nearly all walks of life. This is no theoretical tale, but a keenly observed documentation of the horrifying but real ways schools control childrens bodies in order to control their minds.

Marc Bousquet, author of How the University Works, and professor of Film and Media, Emory University

Scripted Bodies

From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning, Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control.

Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understood in relation to the broader economic, political, and cultural forces that have produced an increasingly authoritarian society. This book details how these new forms of corporeal control shut down the possibility of public schools developing as places where thinking becomes the organizing principle needed to contribute to a more equal, just, and democratic society.

Kenneth J. Saltman is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where he teaches courses in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies PhD program.

Critical Interventions

Politics, Culture, and the Promise of Democracy

Edited by Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, and Kenneth J. Saltman

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First published 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Saltman, Kenneth J., 1969- author.

Title: Scripted bodies : corporate power, smart technology, and

the undoing of public education / Kenneth J. Saltman.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Critical

interventions

Identifiers: LCCN 2016004038| ISBN 9781138675261 (hard-

back) | ISBN 9781138675278 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315560793

(ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational sociology. | School management

and organization--Social aspects. | Educational technology--

Social aspects. | Corporatization. | Privatization in education. |

Business and education.

Classification: LCC LC191 .S1655 2016 | DDC

306.430973--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016004038

ISBN: 978-1-138-67526-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-67527-8 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-56079-3 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo

by Sunrise Setting Ltd, Brixham, UK

Contents

A few friends in particular played an outsized role in helping me to write this book. I am fortunate to have a far flung community of critical intellectuals. Among them my great friend Robin Truth Goodman spent an inordinate amount of time discussing ideas, suggesting reading, and editing all of the chapters. I cannot thank her enough. I had the benefit of discussing with Henry Giroux key ideas at both an early and late stage in the project. Henry is a terrific friend and an inspiration aside from being one of the most important cultural critics and educational thinkers. Alex Means discussed with me most of the chapters in their early form and had a big and valuable influence on the book. My colleague and friend Joao Paraskeva gave me the benefit of discussing ideas and made possible the work conditions that allowed me to do the project. I also want to especially thank the students in the Educational Leadership and Policy doctoral program at UMass Dartmouth with whom I discussed and presented much of what became this book. Their exchange and thoughtful insights contributed greatly to this project.

I am really pleased to have worked again with editor Dean Birkenkamp whose thoughtful input always benefits a project. I would also like to thank Routledge editorial assistant Amanda Yee.

A number of other friends, family members, and colleagues contributed in a variety of ways. Thanks to: Kathy Szybist, Simone Saltman, Sheila Macrine, Donaldo Macedo, Ricardo Rosa, Jeff Isaacs, Noah Gelfand, Kevin Bunka, Mark Garrison, David Hursh, Rob Isaacs, Michelle Decker, Ebony Rose, Josh Shepperd, Mark Wolfmeyer, Joel Spring, Pauline Lipman, Enora Brown, Kate Way, Jeffrey Di Leo, and Al Lingis.

Artist Martin Senn generously provided the cover image of his sculpture In the Penal Colony that depicts the story by Franz Kafka.

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