A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom - On the Human Condition in Education

Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy.
A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of love and hate when dealing with reading and writing in the classroom. With wit and sharp observations, Deborah P. Britzman advocates for a generous recognition of the vulnerabilities, creativity, and responsibilities of university learning. Britzman develops themes that include the handling of technique in psychoanalysis and pedagogy, the uses of theory, regression to adolescence, the inner life of gender, the untold story of the writing block, and everyday mistakes in teaching and learning. She also examines the relationship between mental health and experiences of teaching and learning.

About the author

Deborah P. Britzman is the author of Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning; The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions; and A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom: On the Human Condition in Education, all published by SUNY Press, among many other books.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah P Britzman, Deborah P. Britzman
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781438457338
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5733-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Suny Series, Transforming Subj; Suny Series, Transforming Subj
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system