The Affected Teacher: Psychosocial Perspectives on Professional Experience and Policy Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781138784024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Alex Moore

Opis

At a time when teaching and learning policy too often presents itself in a simplistic input-output language of measurable targets and objectives, "Love and Fear in the Classroom" explores the role played by emotionality in how education is experienced by school students and teachers: in particular, how centrally mandated public education policy is mediated within a climate of love (wanting to do the best for one s students or to please one s teacher) and fear (of being judged to have failed, letting students down, or resisting potentially damaging policy).

Moore s book draws on a rich body of original data comprising classroom observations, extended interviews and discussions with a range of teachers, student teachers and young learners, who present their own accounts of the impact emotions can have on both teaching and learning, and the ways in which emotionality is typically sidelined in public policy documentation while being tacitly relied upon in order for education policies to be implemented as intended. Making use of a wide range of theory, the book draws heavily on insights from psychoanalysis, developing nuanced understandings of classroom life and offering a central argument concerning the significant role played by denied affect that lies behind the rhetoric of inclusion, equity and opportunity in education policy cycles.

In the very highly organized and structured social spaces of public institutions, emotionality or affect needs to be recognised and validated rather than ignored or pathologised. The book argues that current dominant political discourses and ideologies of neo-conservatism, with their emphasis on reproducing the past and on individual competition, freedom, choice and responsibility, work together in opposition to such a move, hampering both students learning and teachers professionalism. "Love and Fear in the Classroom" reflects and develops Deleuze and Guattari s attempts at bringing together Marxist and Freudian thought together in a theory of the "interrelation of desire and power" and of "the relationship between" "psychic and economic life" in the wider society."

Spis treści

Preface: Background and Presentation  Part 1: Contexts and Theory: Reflexivity, psychoanalysis and empowerment  Chapter 1: Reflexivity and Psychoanalysis  Chapter 2: Discourse, Ideology and Affect  Chapter 3: Fear and Love Part 2: Repetition and Transference: Reflexivity as personal and professional development  Chapter 4: New Editions of Old Contracts  Chapter 5: Affect, Communication and ‘Absence’: Performativity and anti-caring Part 3: Reflexivity, Discourse and the Affective Pull  Chapter 6: Not Rocking the Boat: Virtuous pragmatism and the allure of normalcy  Chapter 7: The Loss and Return of the Happy Object Part 4: Resistance and Refusal: Towards a reflexivity of the group  Chapter 8: Reflexivity and the Group: Validating affect, challenging hegemony

O autorze

Alex Moore is an Emeritus Professor at UCL Institute of Education. Previously, he taught in inner-city secondary schools for eighteen years, and was Head of the PGCE Secondary and MA in Education Programmes at Goldsmiths University of London. His earlier books include The Good Teacher: Dominant Discourses in Teacher Education (2004) and Understanding the School Curriculum: Theory, Politics and Principles (2014), both published by Routledge.