Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy

A collection of essays which illuminates the relationship between educational practice and psychoanalysis.

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Taking their cues from Freud, 14 transnational, transdisciplinary contributors bring into consciousness the cultural training subtext of education (e.g. curriculum as gender text) and some of pedagogy's more subjective elements (such as teachers' personality and headaches, and the romanticism of reading). Ten of the 13 chapters appeared in journals and books, 1981-1998. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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).