Biosocial Education

Transforming the way we think about our students, our classrooms, teaching and learning, Biosocial Education draws on advances in genetics and metabolomics, epigenetics, biochemistry and neuroscience, to illustrate how new understandings of how bodies function can and must inform educational theory, policy and everyday pedagogical practices.

Deborah Youdell is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. Martin R. Lindley is Senior Lecturer in Human Biology at Loughborough University, UK.

Acknowledgements List of tables and figures Chapter 1: The social and biological entanglements of learning Chapter 2: When biology and the social meet Chapter 3: Optimizing humans Chapter 4: Being human: brain-body-environment entanglements Chapter 5: Feeling the classroom Chapter 6: Biosocial assemblage: the case of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Chapter 7: Biosocial learning References Index