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- Focuses on the ways that normative language/vocabulary use works to shape students’ and teachers’ perceptions of identity and difference
- Challenges educators to use theory, language, and concepts to think and act differently
- Chapters contain dialogue between the King and the Slave who debate lively various contentious issues raised in the book
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Review of Psychologized Discourses in Education
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Front Matter
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Some Possibilities to Overcome Psychologized Language
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“Psychologized language in education is one of the most important recent contributions to educational theory in the context of contemporary social sciences and humanities, and an investment into the field of ideas aimed at transforming educational practice.” (DarkoŠtrajn, International Review of Education, Vol. 65, 2019)
“In this book, Bekerman and Zembylas expose the ways in which meanings and concepts of identity, culture, and mind have become reified, separating the individual from her community and molding the student into the preferred citizen in the project of state controlled mass education. On the basis of their powerful critique, the authors advocate for a cultural analysis perspective that bypasses positivist criteria and argue for a renewed pedagogy.” (Michael A. Peters, Professor of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand) “This brilliant book outlines the ways in which outmoded and psychologized ways of thinking and doing dominate policy, practice, and research in education. The authors, who are established thought-leaders in this field, argue clearly and persuasively that this is as catastrophic as it is bewildering. Despite its trenchant critique, the book holds out a message of hope for educators everywhere.” (Hilary Cremin, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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The Seymour Fox School of Education, Melton Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Zvi Bekerman
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Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, Cyprus
Michalinos Zembylas
About the authors
Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. He has written extensively on emotion and affect in relation to social justice pedagogies, intercultural and peace education, human rights education, and citizenship education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychologized Language in Education
Book Subtitle: Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth
Authors: Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54937-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54936-5Published: 03 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54937-2Published: 02 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 212
Topics: Language Education