Fanon, Education, Action - Child As Method

Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this book reads the role and functions of 'the child' as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Fanon, education, action: towards child as method
Chapter Two: Idiotic child
Chapter Three: Traumatogenic child
Chapter Four: Therapeutic Child
Chapter Five: Extemic child
Chapter Six: Child as method
References
Index

About the author

Erica Burman is Professor of Education at the Manchester Institute of Education, the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists registered Group Analyst. She is author of Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2017), and Developments: Child, Image, Nation (Routledge, 2008).

Summary

Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this book reads the role and functions of ‘the child’ as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Burman, Burman Erica
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138089945
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08994-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Educational psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology