{"title":"Kenneth J. Saltman","description":"\u003cp\u003eKenneth J. Saltman's works delve into contemporary challenges within education, exploring themes such as cognitive enhancement, the impact of technology, and the societal pressures shaping learning environments. His books critically examine the intersection of policy, psychology, and pedagogy, inviting readers to question prevailing assumptions about intelligence and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on thought-provoking analysis and rigorous insight, Saltman addresses complex issues surrounding educational practices and cultural expectations. Readers interested in the dynamics of attention, technology's role in education, and the consequences of modern educational strategies will find his writing compelling and illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"smart-drugs-attention-doping-and-screen-addicts-by-kenneth-j-saltman-9781350439993","title":"Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this book, Kenneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the centre of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardised tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSaltman describes the material stakes in what he calls the \u003cem\u003eeducation drugs attention complex\u003c\/em\u003e, namely: educational profiteering through the mutually supportive sales of drugs and testing products; drugs and digital screen technologies; drugs and trauma\/resilience programmes; 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 commercialising and producing youth problems for profit and are targeting the most vulnerable young people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book covers the prevalence of screen addiction, the misuse of hormone therapies for transgender 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 policymakers to tackle these issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432586035436,"sku":"9781350439993","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350439993.jpg?v=1774555252"},{"product_id":"the-disaster-of-resilience-by-kenneth-j-saltman-9781350342408","title":"The Disaster of Resilience","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 behaviourist techniques, meditation programmes, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber schools, education brokers, global democracy promotion companies, and dropout recovery firms promise schools resilience to disaster and disruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Disaster of Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e shows how resilience discourse is interwoven with the new digital directions of educational privatization. Saltman argues that resilience has provided the justification for new educational profiteering, creating a climate which individualises collective responsibilities, depoliticises and dehistoricises knowledge and curriculum, and falsely grounds its politics in a mashup of pseudoscience and human capital theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe argues that we must replace resilience discourse with pedagogies and curriculum that allow students not only to endure the intolerable conditions they find themselves in, but to see beyond those conditions and to act collectively on the social, economic, and racial injustices that created them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599401959660,"sku":"9781350342408","price":91.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/0a9915ecf7877c84697547294666e317.jpg?v=1778023516"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kenneth-j-saltman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}