The idea that teachers love children is often taken for granted in education. Rarely is the idea of love itself examined. Bringing together the work of educators, curriculum theorists and clinical psychoanalysts, and drawing upon autobiographical and narrative case studies, this groundbreaking collection examines the collision of love and learning, including the ways in which such intersections are provoked, repressed and denied. Contributors turn to psychoanalysis to explore questions of love in all of its varying permutations - ambivalence, sexuality, hatred, desire, projection, and loss - in order to demonstrate how the social ramifications of such work is critical to the ways teachers are currently being prepared for life in the classroom.

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Bringing together insights from educators and psychoanalysts to unpick notions of love and control as related to the classroom, this book probes into the teacher's identity and motivations. Looking at these ideas, it also takes account of motivations such as ambivalence, sexuality, hatred, desire, projection and loss.
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Introduction. Introduction to the Interludes Interlude 1: Scenes of Love and Control: Born Into Brothels. I Love Them To Death. Savage Inequalities Indeed: Irrationality and Urban School Reform Interlude 2: Scenes from The Black Couch: Dottie Gets Spanked. On the Vicissitudes of Love and Hate: Anne Sexton’s Pedagogy of Loss and Reparation. Mother Love’s Education. Interlude 3. The Painful Politics of Love and History. Transnational Adoptions and Queer Diasporas. Parenting and the Narcisstic Demands of Whiteness. Interlude 4: The Child’s Question Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Little Oedipus: On the Pleasures and Disappointments of Sexual Enlightenment. On Knowing and Desiring Children: The Significance of the Unthought Known Interlude 5: Curriculum and the Erotics of Learning. Romantic Research: Why We Love to Read. Reading, Writing and the Wrath of My Father. Love in the Classroom: Desire and Transference in Teaching and Learning. About the Contributors

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415952064
Publisert
2006-04-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
560 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Biographical note

Gail Masuchika Boldt, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. She teaches courses on theories of identity and representation, Foucault and education, media education and children's popular culture, methods of elementary language arts, and methods of elementary reading.
Paula M. Salvio, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Education at the University of New Hampshire. She teaches courses on literacy education, the teaching of writing, writing and performance, curriculum theory, and the philosophy of education.