Positioning Subjects - Psychoanalysis and Critical Educational Studies

This book addresses an area that is theoretically undeveloped in educational studies-the constitution of the human subject. The author uses psychoanalysis to explore this gap in critical studies of education. Educational progressivism overestimates the power of rationality and represses any understanding of unconscious mental processes. What is needed is the development of a psychodynamic 'social psychology of classes.' According to the author, we need to investigate the differential relations between institutional and self-formative processes.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Critical Educational Studies
Freud on Society and the Self
The Psychic Economy of Subjectivity: Towards a Model
Althusser:The Trojan Horse
Ideology
Interpellation
Subjectivity
Education and Change
Bibliography
Index

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Appel, Stephen W. Appel
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.1996
• EAN: 9780897894425
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-442-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 425 g
• Series: Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Current Events and Issues: Education