Beyond Human Capitalist Education: From Capitalocentrism to Carecentrism
Autor Kathleen Lynchen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iul 2026
Responding to the gap in critical educational analysis by examining how the principles of human capital theory are framing the substantive content and modes of assessment within education, chapters review the impact of economics, psychology, sociology and philosophy as powerful disciplines within education which, it is argued, have, in different ways, facilitated the hegemonic power of human capital-led thinking in educational policy making. The resultant implications for care and social justice are discussed, as well as an exploration of how a relational approach in educational practice and experiential learning could enable people to think and act carefully and critically about the Other including other species, the earth, and the self.
Calling for a radical remodelling of education in being critical of the educational status quo, this forward-thinking, ethically-informed book offers a hopeful perspective on education. It will be of interest to researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and policy makers in the fields of educational policy and politics, sociology of education, and more broadly, teacher education. Those specifically interested in human capital theory will also find the book engaging in educational terms.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032729909
ISBN-10: 1032729902
Pagini: 322
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032729902
Pagini: 322
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
Contents
Opening Remarks and Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Care Matters in Education
Chapter 1: Education, Human Capital and Capitalocentrism
Chapter 2: Individualisation, Experts and Psychologising Education
Chapter 3: Inequality in Education: Sociological Contributions and Omissions
Chapter 4: Ordinal Ranking and Adultism: Affective and Epistemic Injustices against Children (co-authored originally with Anne Lodge)
Chapter 5: Hermeneutical and Testimonial Exclusions in Educational Theory
Chapter 6: Decolonisation, Disauthorization and Rethinking Intelligences
Chapter 7: Learning to Think with Care
Chapter 8: Education as a Site of Resistance to Injustice
Chapter 9: Rethinking Social Justice with Relationality and Care in Mind
Opening Remarks and Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Care Matters in Education
Chapter 1: Education, Human Capital and Capitalocentrism
Chapter 2: Individualisation, Experts and Psychologising Education
Chapter 3: Inequality in Education: Sociological Contributions and Omissions
Chapter 4: Ordinal Ranking and Adultism: Affective and Epistemic Injustices against Children (co-authored originally with Anne Lodge)
Chapter 5: Hermeneutical and Testimonial Exclusions in Educational Theory
Chapter 6: Decolonisation, Disauthorization and Rethinking Intelligences
Chapter 7: Learning to Think with Care
Chapter 8: Education as a Site of Resistance to Injustice
Chapter 9: Rethinking Social Justice with Relationality and Care in Mind
Recenzii
'Lynch’s book, Beyond Human Capitalist Education: From Capitalocentrism to Carecentrism is a stunning account of the reproduction of inequalities and injustices in education offering a clear pathway toward transforming school policies, practices and priorities. Not since the “new sociology of education” in the 1970’s has a book challenged the underpinnings of capitalist logics within educational systems in such a comprehensive way. The logics of neoliberal, racial-capitalist educational practices foster highly competitive and hierarchical individualism that work against other -and care-centered ways of thinking, acting and feeling. The book pays special attention to the harms imposed by the routine testing and ranking of school children along the narrowest of capabilities (verbal, linguistic, mathematical) that are measured in racialized, classed, ableist and adultist ways. A personal sense of violation, humiliation and injury that results from not “measuring up” fuels both affective and epistemic injustices that then bleed into divisive cultural politics that pit the worthy/valued against the underserving/disposable. Lynch’s book provides a vision for what an education that “does no harm” – to people, animals, environments – would mean.'
- Wendy Luttrell, Professor, Urban Education, Critical Psychology, Sociology, & Gender and Women’s Studies Graduate Center, CUNY
‘Beyond Human Capitalist Education is a timely and important contribution to contemporary debates on education and social justice. Kathleen Lynch offers a rigorous and compelling critique of human-capital-led education, exposing its epistemic, affective and ethical limits. By placing care, relationality and ecological responsibility at the centre of educational thinking, this book opens up new ways of imagining what education is for and who it should serve. An essential read for scholars, educators and policymakers committed to more just educational futures.’
- Aina Tarabini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
‘Kathleen Lynch’s new book offers a compelling and necessary analysis of neoliberal capitalism through the lens of care, scrutinising the careless norms of market-driven systems and their multilayered impact on humans and non-humans. This is also a volume that inspires hope thanks to Lynch’s transformative and care-centric vision for education and society. This is an essential reading for anyone concerned with social justice and our responsibility to each other and to the planet.’
- Marie-Pierre Moreau, Professor of Education - Education Research Lead - CERII Director - ARU, Cambridge, CB1 1PT.
‘This is a book on care, and the carelessness of capitalism, that has been written with immense care and consideration. Beyond Human Capitalist Education should be read by everyone concerned, not just with the state of education, but social and economic inequalities more widely. It demonstrates, with impressive breadth and depth, that learning to think with care is the way to challenge the profound injustices that permeate education. The careful thinking outlined in the book combines forensic analysis with hope and vision to show how a fairer, more caring educational system can enable a moral, ethical, questioning and active citizenry.’
- Diane Reay, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cambridge
- Wendy Luttrell, Professor, Urban Education, Critical Psychology, Sociology, & Gender and Women’s Studies Graduate Center, CUNY
‘Beyond Human Capitalist Education is a timely and important contribution to contemporary debates on education and social justice. Kathleen Lynch offers a rigorous and compelling critique of human-capital-led education, exposing its epistemic, affective and ethical limits. By placing care, relationality and ecological responsibility at the centre of educational thinking, this book opens up new ways of imagining what education is for and who it should serve. An essential read for scholars, educators and policymakers committed to more just educational futures.’
- Aina Tarabini, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
‘Kathleen Lynch’s new book offers a compelling and necessary analysis of neoliberal capitalism through the lens of care, scrutinising the careless norms of market-driven systems and their multilayered impact on humans and non-humans. This is also a volume that inspires hope thanks to Lynch’s transformative and care-centric vision for education and society. This is an essential reading for anyone concerned with social justice and our responsibility to each other and to the planet.’
- Marie-Pierre Moreau, Professor of Education - Education Research Lead - CERII Director - ARU, Cambridge, CB1 1PT.
‘This is a book on care, and the carelessness of capitalism, that has been written with immense care and consideration. Beyond Human Capitalist Education should be read by everyone concerned, not just with the state of education, but social and economic inequalities more widely. It demonstrates, with impressive breadth and depth, that learning to think with care is the way to challenge the profound injustices that permeate education. The careful thinking outlined in the book combines forensic analysis with hope and vision to show how a fairer, more caring educational system can enable a moral, ethical, questioning and active citizenry.’
- Diane Reay, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Cambridge
Notă biografică
Kathleen Lynch is Professor and Chair of Equality Studies (Emerita), at University College Dublin, where she has also been a Senior Lecturer in Education. She was elected as an Executive member of the Global Forum on Reimagining the Education of Humanity for the Third Millennium 2025, in Bengaluru, India.
Descriere
With a preface by Michael Apple, this book challenges the dominant human-capital-centred model of education in the modern age. It argues for an alternative carecentric educational paradigm founded on principles of social and ecological justice.