Using the Medical Model in Education: Can Pills Make You Clever

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David Turner examines commonly held beliefs about learning, knowledge and intelligence, and critically assesses claims that certain drugs can improve learning and memory.

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'In his book, Turner offers many innovative and provocative ideas... This is a book that should be read by all educationalist and empowering pedagogues working towards global pedagogies paradigm.'Educational Practice and Theory
'A timely intervention in the drug-based medical model of education designed to enhance cognition and the efficiency of learning. Turner teaches us to be suspicious of claims based on alleged medical parallels with education and examines the underlying assumptions behind the view that cognition, learning and intelligence can be enhanced through drug therapy. In the increasingly medicalised world of education this book should be read by educators and policy-makers.' Michael A. Peters, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, USA
Turner makes an eloquent case for the distinctiveness of education as an enterprise that has its own norms and values, and cannot be reduced to fashionable talk of brain learning, neurochemistry and "cleverness pills"'. Richard Smith, Editor, Ethics and Education and Associate Editor, Journal of Philosophy of Education

Author Bio

David A. Turner is Professor of Education at the University of Glamorgan, UK. Before he entered academia, he was a physics teacher in secondary schools in England. He won the World Education Fellowship Prize in 2006 for his book, Theory of Education. He is currently Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University until July 2010.