Nationalized Anxieties, Spiritualized Traumas? Examining the Historical Contours of Education, Health Crises, and Alternative Onto-Epistemologies

• In Event: Moving Through/to Possibilities: Navigating Uncertainties, Pathologies, and Anxieties in Troubling Times

Abstract

This paper engages some of the historical tethers and antecedents of contemporary health and pathology discourses in education research and policy. Spiritualism, "American Nervousness", and scientific hygiene are considered with respect to the formation of modern schooling and ongoing concerns amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author

• Ryan Ziols, Georgia State University