Enhancing the Educational Subject: Cognitive Capitalism, Positive Psychology and Well-Being Training in Schools

Autor/in	Reveley, James
Titel	Enhancing the Educational Subject: Cognitive Capitalism, Positive Psychology and Well-Being Training in Schools
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 11 (2013) 5, S.538-548 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2013.11.5.538
Schlagwörter	Psychology; Well Being; Educational Policy; Metacognition; Individual Development; Psychological Patterns; Creative Thinking; Socioeconomic Status; Teaching Methods; Social Systems; Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychologie; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Individuelle Entwicklung; Kreatives Denken; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Social system; Soziales System; Kritik
Abstract	Positive psychology is influencing educational policy and practice in Britain and North America. This article reveals how this psychological discourse and its offshoot school-based training programs, which stress happiness, self-improvement and well-being, align with an emergent socio-economic formation: cognitive capitalism. Three key points are made. First, there is an elective affinity between cognitive capitalism and positive psychology, whose advocates promote "mindfulness", "curiosity" and "psychological flexibility" as the means to personal fulfilment. Second, an array of technologies of the self spring from the positive psychology discourse; mindfulness practice is one of these. Currently being trialled in British and North American schools, this self-technology exhorts children consciously to constitute themselves as curious, creative, self-regulating persons. Third, this discourse and its attendant self-transformative practices promote a reflexive subjectivity that cognitive capitalism actively exploits. Yet it is potentially a resistant subjectivity with the capacity to turn a blowtorch back upon this capitalism. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10