Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy

by Stephen W. Appel

Overview

This edited collection looks at education through the lens of psychoanalysis and vice versa. Each contribution asks, in effect, what does it mean to be a pedagogue and an educational theorist after Freud? The authors include clinical practitioners (Rivka Eifermann, M. Robert Gardner, Stephen Appel) as well as academics from philosophy (Trevor Pateman, John Wilson, Yael Shalem, David Bensusan), sociology (Deborah Britzman), curriculum studies (William Pinar, Madeleine Grumet), and social and literary theory (Valerie Walkerdine, Jane Gallop, James Donald). The authors do not share any particular theoretical perspective, only a determination to demonstrate some exciting outcomes of understanding that pedagogy is to a crucial extent unconscious, and that psychotherapy is, in Freud's words, an after-education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897895026
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/1999
Series:	Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1340L (what's this?)

About the Author

STEPHEN APPEL is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Auckland and author of Positioning Subjects: Psychoanalysis and Critical Educational Studies (Bergin & Garvey 1996). He is also a psychotherapist at Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Between "Lifting" and "Accepting": Observations on the Work of Angst in Learning by Deborah P. Britzman
Behind the Painted Smile by Valerie Walkerdine
Why Can't We Stop Believing? by Yael Shalem and David Bensusan
Psychoanalysis and Socratic Education by Trevor Pateman
The Exceptional Position of "A Child is Being Beaten" in the Learning and Teaching of Freud by Rivka Eifermann
Philosophy and Psychological Resistance: The Case of Educational Research by John Wilson
Romantic Research: Why We Love to Read by Madeleine Grumet
The True Teacher and the Furor to Teach by M. Robert Gardner
Understanding Curriculum as Text: Notes on Reproduction, Resistance, and Male-Male Relations by William F. Pinar
Knot a Love Story by Jane Gallop
The Teacher's Headache by Stephen Appel
The Circuits of Subjectivity in Education and Popular Culture by James Donald
Fort/Da: Life History, Memory, and Pedagogy by Heather Worth
Index

Editorial Reviews

Taking their cues from Freud, 14 transnational, transdisciplinary contributors bring into consciousness the cultural training subtext of education (e.g. curriculum as gender text) and some of pedagogy's more subjective elements (such as teachers' personality and headaches, and the romanticism of reading). Ten of the 13 chapters appeared in journals and books, 1981-1998. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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