Schooling, Human Capital and Civilization

This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in generating policies and practices that govern curriculum studies as an academic field.

Bruce Moghtader is an instructor in the Department of Educational Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada.

Introduction. 1. To rule with justice. 2. Humans as property. 3. Human-God-Machine. 4. Utilitarianism and market divinity. 5. Human capital theory. 6. Understanding the present.