Human Capital

Resumen del libro

Does the education system make better people? Why are so many teachers and students alike stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education?Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology.

Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals. In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education intrinsically a common public good has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. Human Capital charts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good.

Biografía del autor

Guy Standing ha sido profesor en las universidades de Bath, Londres y Monash, además de director de programa en la Organización Internacional del Trabajo de la ONU.<br> Standing es cofundador x{0026} x02014;y actual copresidentex{0026} x02014; de la Red Global de Renta Básica y ha asesorado a numerosos gobiernos y organismos internacionales en materia de política social y económica.<br> Es autor, además, de grandes éxitos editoriales como El precariado: Una nueva clase social, La renta básica: Un derecho para todos y para siempre y La política del tiempo: Tomar el control en la era de la incertidumbre, este último publicado por Paidós.