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Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics
Debating genetic futures from school to society
Routledge Research in Education Series
Author: Murphy Pádraig
Language: EnglishSubject for Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics:
Keywords
education; science education; genetics; biology; genetic screening; reproductive and genetic technologies; RGTs; secondary education; Anthony Giddens; Latour; Society; Extra Curricular; Public Engagement; William King; Good Life; BRCA1; ICSI; International Monetary Fund; Science Communication Literature; Saviour Siblings; Smart Phone; PGD; Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis; BRCA1 Gene; Yuck Factor; Pro Life; Town Hall; Moral Bio-enhancement; Socioscientific Issues; Stem Future; Stem Initiative; Undergo IVF Treatment; Adult Focus Groups; DNA Trace; DNA Bubble; Socioscientific Argument
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What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments?
Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly controversial and political. We are entering an era where we can design future humans, firstly, by genetic screening of "undesirable" traits or indeed embryos, but perhaps later by more radical genetic engineering. This has a profound effect on what we see as normal, acceptable and responsible.
This book argues that these urgent and biopolitical issues should be central to how biology is taught as a subject. Debate about life itself has always been at the forefront of connected molecular, genetic and social/personal identity levels, and each of these levels requires processes of communication and debate, what Anthony Giddens called in passing life politics. In this book Pádraig Murphy opens the term up, with examples from field research in schools, student responses to educational films exploring the future of RGTs, and science studies of strategic biotechnology and the lab practices of genetic screening. Life political debate is thoroughly examined and is identified as a way of connecting mainstream education of biology with future generations.
Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics will appeal to post-graduates and academics involved with science education, science communication, communication studies and the sociology of education.
1. Introduction: Biopolitical Control and the Possibilities for Life Political Education 2. Biopolitics and State in Education 3. Biopinion 4. Future Scripts and Present Bodies 5. The Bíos in Education 6. ‘Political’ Science and Framing: an Education from Media 7. Nine Genetic Futures 8. Life Politics
Pádraig Murphy is Lecturer in Communications and Chair of the MSc in Science Communication programme at Dublin City University, Ireland. His teaching and research interests include science communication, science and technology studies, and emerging technologies, biopolitics and media in education.