Neuroethics in Higher Education Policy

✍ Scribed by Dana Lee Baker, Brandon Leonard (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United States. After introducing readers to the philosophical and policy foundations of the neuroethics of higher education, this book explores essential conundrums in the neuroethical practice of higher education in modern democracies. Focusing on neuroethics from the perspective of universally designed learning and policy design sets this project apart from other work in the field. Advances in neuroscience and changes in attitudes towards disability have identified mechanisms by which higher education infrastructures interact with both individuals considered neurotypical and those with identified disabilities to diminish students’ capacity to enter, persist, and complete higher education. Policy to date has focused on identified disabilities as a requirement for accommodations. This strategy both underestimates the effect of ill-fitting infrastructures on those considered neurologically typical and serves to stratify the student body. As a result, neuroethical gaps abound in higher education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Neuroethics and Higher Education....Pages 1-17
History of Higher Education in the USA....Pages 19-38
Tending the Gate: Admitting Students....Pages 39-60
Teaching and Learning....Pages 61-81
Learning Evaluation....Pages 83-100
Peer Interactions....Pages 101-119
Combat Acquired: Veterans and Neurological Difference....Pages 121-140
Circumstance of Difference: Socioeconomic Status....Pages 141-156
Conclusion....Pages 157-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-183

✦ Subjects

Public Policy;Education Policy;US Politics;Higher Education;Educational Psychology;Neuropsychology