Classroom As Privileged Space - Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Social Justice in Pedagogy

This book examines the psychic and emotional effects of the dehumanization of children based on discrimination and difference in classrooms. Using psychoanalysis, it highlights the emotional structures that develop in learners through the repeated trauma of racism and homophobia. Recommended for scholars in education, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Pedagogy
Chapter Two: Why Memoirs?
Chapter Three: Bev Sellars: They Called Me Number One
Chapter Four: Glen Retief: The Jack Bank"
Chapter Five: Mark Mathabane: Kaffir Boy
Chapter Six: Privileged Space: A Psychoanalytic Paradigm for Pedagogy
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Tapo Chimbganda is clinical counsellor at the Bramalea Community Health Centre in Canada.

Summary

This book examines the psychic and emotional effects of the dehumanization of children based on discrimination and difference in classrooms. Using psychoanalysis, it highlights the emotional structures that develop in learners through the repeated trauma of racism and homophobia. Recommended for scholars in education, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

Product details

• Authors: Glorie Taponeswa Chimbganda, Tapo Chimbganda
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781498511957
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1195-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century; Race and Education in the Twen; Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century; Race and Education in the Twen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Educational psychology, Philosophy & theory of education