Binding: Paperback
Description: Bridging childhood studies pedagogy and educational theory critical psychology and postcolonial studies this unique book reads the role and functions of the child and childhood as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon. Based on innovative readings of Fanon and postcolonial cultural studies the book offers new insights for critical pedagogical and transformative practice in forging crucial links not only between the political and the psychological but between distress therapy and (personal and political) learning and transformation. Structured around four indicative and distinct forms of child read from Fanon's texts (Idiotic Traumatogenic Therapeutic Extemic) the author discusses both educational and therapeutic practices. The pedagogical links the political with the personal and Fanon's revolutionary psychoaffective account offers vital resources to inform these. Finally the book presents child as method as a new analytical approach by which to read the geopolitical which shows childhood education and critical psychological studies to be key to these at the level of theory method and practice. By interrogating contemporary modalities of childhood as modern economic and political tropes the author offers conceptual and methodological resources for practically engaging with and transforming these. This book will be vital and fascinating reading for students and scholars in psychology psychoanalysis education and childhood studies gender studies postcolonial studies and mental health.
Title: Fanon Education Action Child As Method
Author(s): Burman Erica
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138089952
Pages: 244 Pages
Publication Date: 7/23/2018
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
Category: Educational Psychology