Anticipating Education: Concepts for Imagining Pedagogy with Psychoanalysis

by Deborah Britzman

Overview

A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Anticipating Education is an interdisciplinary collection of Britzman’s previously published and unpublished papers that examines the dilemmas created by anticipating education, provoked when teachers, students, and professors encounter the unknown while trying to know emotional situations affecting their waiting, wanting, and wishing for teaching and learning. Anticipation has a particular flavor in scenes of education and not only since schooling presents again the mise-en-scène of childhood; anticipation also signifies the estranged temporality of anxiety, phantasies, and defense that compose and decompose hopes for transforming knowledge, sociality, and subjectivity in group life.

This book is composed of Britzman’s well regarded and highly cited conceptual contributions to thinking broadly on topics of intersubjectivity and pedagogy at the university and schools; the reception of difficult knowledge as unresolved social conflicts in pedagogical thought; and the significance of psychoanalysis with pedagogy. Four themes address the anxieties of teaching and learning: phantasies of education; difficult knowledge; transforming subjects; and, psychoanalysis with education.

Anticipating Education is required reading for every newly-minted faculty member. The wisdom provided in this volume will prove to be invaluable to your future career.

Perfect for courses such as: Foundations of Education | Theories of Teaching and Learning | Special Topics | Advanced Curriculum Theory | Philosophy of Education | Social Thought and Education | Studies of Language, Culture and Teaching | Child and Adolescent Development

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975504311
Publisher:	Myers Education Press
Publication date:	03/08/2021
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Deborah P. Britzman is Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a working psychoanalyst. Known for her work in critical pedagogy and psychoanalysis, Britzman is the author of nine books, the most recent of which include A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom; Freud and Education; and Melanie Klein: Early Childhood, Play and the Question of Freedom.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Late Education

Part I: Phantasies Of Education

Chapter 1
A Note On Transference To Reading

Chapter 2
On Not Being Able To Write

Chapter 3
The Homoerotic Turn

Chapter 4
Teacher Education In The Confusion Of Our Times

Part II: Difficult Knowledge

Chapter 5
On Some Psychical Consequences of AIDS Education

Chapter 6
The Death Of Curriculum?

Chapter 7
The Fate Of Being A Stranger

Part III: Transforming Subjects

Chapter 8
Public Education As States Of Mind

Chapter 9
‘Each To Each’ And The Equality Of Vulnerability

Chapter 10
Notes On The Poetics Of Supervision

Chapter 11
Some Psychoanalytic Observations On Ordinary, Quiet, And Painful Resistance

Part IV: Psychoanalysis With Pedagogy

Chapter 12
‘Even In Cambridge’

Chapter 13
What Is Emotional About Our Emotional Situation?

Chapter 14
On Disquieting Imagination, Indeterminacy, Aesthetic Conflicts, And Grouch Days

About The Author
Index of Selected Concepts For Imagining Pedagogy With Psychoanalysis

NOTE: Table of contents subject to change up to final publication date.

Editorial Reviews

In Anticipating Education, Deborah Britzman draws on three decades’ worth of profound reflection on education, seen through the prism of critical and psychoanalytic ideas. The result is a wonderful short book, in which she creates a tapestry of insightful and moving observations on how education can be revolutionised by thought that carries emotion and politics with it. Education emerges from this book as an essential catalyst for living a full life.

From the Publisher

This erudite and poetic book offers an invitation to return to the source of education, a place of vulnerability, anguish, wonderment and possibility. Beneath the 'mind-numbing stultification' of bureaucratized schooling can be found teachers seeking to embrace childhood subjectivity and difference and release the imagination. This book is for such educators. In its expansiveness and vision, this book builds on the work of Paulo Freire and Maxine Greene to articulate a pedagogy of the imagination. Britzman illustrates the beautiful complementarity of psychoanalysis and critical educational theory in articulating a pedagogy of interiority, social justice, and creative possibility that so many educators hunger for.

Michael O’Loughlin

This book is a marvelous instance of the psychoanalytic truth which good educators must learn to work with, that we all inhabit a precarious life-world that is structured by anticipation and ‘afterwardness’. Deborah Britzman gathers together earlier papers for us, supplementing them with typically thoughtful additional reflections on what is usually un-thought in pedagogical practice. Now we can rediscover how prescient all this is, and grasp the opportunity of benefitting from it before it is too late.

Ian Parker

In Anticipating Education, Deborah Britzman draws on three decades’ worth of profound reflection on education, seen through the prism of critical and psychoanalytic ideas. The result is a wonderful short book, in which she creates a tapestry of insightful and moving observations on how education can be revolutionised by thought that carries emotion and politics with it. Education emerges from this book as an essential catalyst for living a full life.

Stephen Frosh