The classroom as privileged space : psychoanalytic paradigms for social justice in pedagogy / Tapo Chimbganda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chimbganda, Tapo, author.

Series:

Race and education in the twenty-first century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Psychoanalysis and education.

Racism in education.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

xxv, 177 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

The Classroom as Privileged Space: Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Social Justice in Pedagogy examines the psychic and emotional effects of the dehumanization of children based on social discrimination and difference within schooling. Used as a tool to critique the current state of social justice within education, psychoanalysis allows for a focus on the individual within the social context of schooling. It highlights the emotional structures that can develop in children and learners through the off-repeated trauma of racism and homophobia. This book draws from the articulated experiences of three writers and urges reader to approach their work and this book as a witness who is enabled to respond through acquiring knowledge and acting on it. Drawing from scholars in psychoanalysis, sociology, and education, Tapo Chimbganda posits that perhaps the "safe space" that education has been touting is not what is necessary to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion in classrooms. Rather, privilege, reimagined through psychoanalytic technique, can make possible the elements of social justice that have long frustrated, silenced, and escaped the classroom. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Pedagogy 1

2 Why Memoirs? 21

3 Bev Sellars: They Called Me Number One 49

4 Glen Relief: The Jack Bank 77

5 Mark Mathabane: Kaffir Boy 105

6 Privileged Space: A Psychoanalytic Paradigm for Pedagogy 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Chimbganda, Tapo, author. Classroom as privileged space

ISBN:

9781498511957

1498511953

OCLC:

987797038