The other side of pedagogy : Lacan's four discourses and the development of the student writer / T. R. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, T. R., 1964- author.

Series:

SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.

SUNY Series, Transforming Subjects : Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Psychological aspects.

English language.

Psychoanalysis and education.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

University classrooms are increasingly in crisis—though popular demands for accountability grow more insistent, no one seems to know what our teaching should seek to achieve. This book traces how we arrived at our current impasse, and it uses Lacan's theory of the four discourses to chart a path forward via an analysis of the freshman writing class. How did we forfeit a meaningful set of goals for our teaching? T. R. Johnson suggests that, by the 1960s, the work of Bergson and Piaget had led us to see student growth as a journey into more and more abstract thought, a journey that will happen naturally if the teacher knows how to stay out of the way. Since the 1960s, we've come to see development, in turn, only as a vague initiation into the academic community. This book, however, offers an alternative tradition, one rooted in Vygotsky and the feminist movement, that defines the developing student writer in terms of a complex, intersubjective ecology, and then, through these precedents, proposes a fully psychoanalytic model of student development. To illustrate his practical use of the four discourses, Johnson draws on a wide array of concepts and a colorful set of examples, including Franz Kafka, Keith Richards, David Foster Wallace, Hannah Arendt, and many others.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Recovering the Unconscious

The Crisis

Contemporary Composition Studies

Why the "Growth" Movement Didn't Grow—and an Alternative

Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy

A Perfect Ignorance and Paralysis

Only Following Directions

"Songs . . . dripping off my fingers"

Playing by Ear

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438453217

1438453213

OCLC:

893683781