Overview
- Offers a comprehensive, sophisticated understanding for critiquing the operation and effects of the psy-disciplines in contemporary education
- Provides a key resource for understanding a particular strand in Foucault’s oeuvre, centred on his work around the psy- disciplines, normalisation, governmentality and subjectification
- Investigates how critical theoretical perspectives influence empirical materials and problems in contemporary education
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About this book
With chapters by a mixture of established and emerging international scholars in the field this is an interdisciplinary and authoritative study into the role of the psy-disciplines in the education system. Providing vivid illustrations from throughout the educational lifespan the book serves as an invaluable tool for reflection and critique of the implications of psy-based practice, and will be of particular interest to academics and scholars in the field of education policy and psychology.
Reviews
“From silence to special education, from learners to leadership, from positive psychology to gendered, classed and racialized pathologisation, this engaging and creatively constructed book shows how psychological practices work to perpetuate and naturalise dominant hegemonic cultural assumptions. Not only is this a critical intervention, but it offers strategies for disrupting, interrupting and even queering or rewriting the role of the psy-complex in contemporary technologies and rationalities of rule. A must-read for all critical educators and practitioners.” (Erica Burman, Manchester University, UK)
“This volume brings a welcome updating of the application of the analysis of the Psy-complex to contemporary education. It deserves to be widely read across the educational field.” (Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interrupting the Psy-Disciplines in Education
Editors: Eva Bendix Petersen, Zsuzsa Millei
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51305-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51304-5Published: 10 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51305-2Published: 09 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Social Care, Psychiatry