Interrupting the Psy-Disciplines in Education

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bendix Petersen, Eva (Editor), Millei, Zsuzsa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Psychiatry.; Educational sociology.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education and state.; Social service.; Educational Psychology.; Sociology of Education.; Education Policy.; Social Care.

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...

Table of 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? .