Full Description
This book offers critical explorations of how the psy-disciplines, Michel Foucault's collective term for psychiatry, psychology and psycho-analysis, play out in contemporary educational spaces. With a strong focus on Foucault's theories, it critically investigates how the psy-disciplines continue to influence education, both regulating and shaping behaviour and morality. The book provides insight into different educational contexts and concerns across a child's educational lifespan; early childhood education, inclusive education, special education, educational leadership, social media, university, and beyond to enable reflection and critique of the implications of psy-based knowledge and practice. 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.
Contents
Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Risk Factors for Psy-Diagnosis?.- Chapter 2. Child Development and the Shifting Regulation of Young Learner Subjects.- Chapter 3. `The Elephant in the Room'.- Chapter 4. Re-thinking Pointiness.- Chapter 5. Becoming a Knowable and Testable Learner.- Chapter 6. `How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?'.- Chapter 7. Facebook 52.- Chapter 8. Post-Psychologies, Psy-Leadership and Subjectivities in Contemporary Education.- Chapter 9. Squishing, Contradictions and Confusions.- Chapter 10. `No, I'm Not OK'.- Chapter 11. Between Academic Development and the Learning Sciences.- Chapter 12. Is That All There Is?
