Challenging the Cult of Self-Esteem in Education - Education, Psychology, and the Subaltern Self

List of contents

1. Self-Esteem as Common Sense 2. The History and Politics of Self-Esteem 3. Self-Esteem and its Colonizing Impact 4. Self-Esteem Curriculum as Epistimicides 5. An Act of Armed Love: Curriculum for Social Agency, Empowerment, and Self-Determination

About the author

Kenzo E. Bergeron is a fifth-grade teacher at Willows Community School, California, and former researcher at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

Summary

In this book, Bergeron demonstrates the negative emotional and pedagogical repercussions that result from American educators’ embrace of self-esteem and the dogma surrounding its acceptance.

Product details

• Authors: Kenzo Bergeron, Kenzo E. Bergeron
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138700888
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70088-8
• No. of pages: 126
• Series: Routledge Research in Educational Psychology; Routledge Research in Educational Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Educational psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Schools and pre-schools, Educational strategies and policy