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Practice Makes Practice

A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Practice Makes Practice

A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition

By: Deborah P. Britzman

This revised edition of the classic text explores the complexity of what learning to teach means. While the research on teacher education continues to proliferate, Practice Makes Practice remains the discipline’s indispensable classic text. Drawing upon critical ethnography, this new edition of this best-selling book asks the question, what does learning to teach do and mean to newcomers and to those who surround them? Deborah P. Britzman writes poignantly of the struggle for significance and the contradictory realities of secondary teaching. She offers a theory of difficulty in learning and explores why the blaming of individuals is so prevalent in education. The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis, discussing why we might return to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition is an insightful “hidden chapter” that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession. Deborah P. Britzman is Distinguished Research Professor at York University. She is the author of many books, including The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions; After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning; and Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning, all published by SUNY Press.

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Practice Makes Practice

A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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The Very Thought of Education

Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions

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The Very Thought of Education

Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions

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Winner of the 2009 Gary A. Olson Award presented by JAC - a journal of rhetoric, culture, and politics For anyone who has ever been to school, the very thought of education recalls an emotional world denounced. What happens then if we try to understand the emotional scenery of education? Author Deborah P. Britzman proposes that the psychoanalysis of love and hate in learning provides creative commentary on our contemporary educational controversies. Drawing upon novels, art, psychoanalytic theory, clinical material, and philosophical debates on human nature, Britzman presents a psychoanalytic education of uncertainty. She focuses on key encounters: thinking, development, reading, psychology, transference, countertransference, and learning a profession. From the collapse of contemporary pedagogical themes to the work of reparation, Britzman explores the fantasies of education for the purpose of returning ideas of grace, hope, humor, and humility to the impossible professions (education, government, and medicine).

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State University of New York Press

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1438426550

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A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

On the Human Condition in Education

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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On the Human Condition in Education

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A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of love and hate when dealing with reading and writing in the classroom. With wit and sharp observations, Deborah P. Britzman advocates for a generous recognition of the vulnerabilities, creativity, and responsibilities of university learning. Britzman develops themes that include the handling of technique in psychoanalysis and pedagogy, the uses of theory, regression to adolescence, the inner life of gender, the untold story of the writing block, and everyday mistakes in teaching and learning. She also examines the relationship between mental health and experiences of teaching and learning.

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Melanie Klein

Early Analysis, Play, and the Question of Freedom

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Melanie Klein

Early Analysis, Play, and the Question of Freedom

By: Deborah P. Britzman

This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizoid and depressive positions, phantasy, object relations, projective identification, anxiety, envy, and the urge for reparation and gratitude— are discussed in terms of their evolution and the designs of her main questions, all stemming from the problem of inhibition. Her contribution to an understanding of symbolization and the shift from concrete thinking to greater freedom of mind is analyzed. The essay develops the following questions: why is learning an emotional situation? How did Klein’s life and larger history influence her views? What are her central theories of mental life? Why did Klein focus on anxiety and phantasies as making up the life of the mind? What is object relations theory? And, what does Klein’s model of the self proffer to contemporary education in schools and in universities?

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Springer

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3319260855

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Novel Education

Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Novel Education

Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

What is a novel education like? The surprising reply supposes that fiction affects the crisis of understanding work within the human professions of teaching and psychoanalysis. The studies of learning and not learning presented begin with the delicate surprise made from representing affective experiences and conflicts within self/other relations. Freud's question of presenting psychoanalysis to others, and the accidental pedagogy made, continues to animate our debates on the uses of affected learning. Novel Education analyzes the perils and pleasures of inviting, narrating, and interpreting emotional experience in learning and not learning. Drawing upon contemporary psychoanalytic debates on the relation between understanding and therapeutic action, these studies open discussion on the unusual world of psychoanalytic methods and link free association and the transference to the aesthetic conflicts made from thinking about sexuality, and the difficulties of inhibition in learning, listening, and the teacher's memory of remembering learning to teach. Novel Education highlights a discussion of the teacher's depression and the difficulty of formulating subjective knowledge from practices, philosophies, and theories in the human professions. It raises the question of how fields of thought and practice affect themselves. How may we describe the human idiom made in pedagogical and psychoanalytic relationships? And why join learning to not learning? This thought-provoking book is essential reading on a broad range of fields for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty members.

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Peter Lang

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0820481483

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Freud and Education

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Freud and Education

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This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah P. Britzman, explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach.

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Routledge

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1136899197

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Lost Subjects, Contested Objects

Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning

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A study of love and hate in learning and an argument for why educators might begin with consideration of these psychical dynamics when interpreting the conflictive dreams of education.

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0791438074

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After-Education

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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After-Education

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

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In After-Education Deborah P. Britzman raises the startling question, What is education that it should give us such trouble? She explores a series of historic and contemporary psychoanalytic arguments over the nature of reality and fantasy for thinking through the force and history of education. Drawing from the theories of Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, she analyzes experiences of difficult knowledge, pedagogy, group psychology, theory, and questions of loneliness in learning education. Throughout the book, education appears and is transformed in its various guises: as a nervous condition, as social relation, as authority, as psychological knowledge, as quality of psychical reality, as fact of natality, as the thing between teachers and students, as an institution, and as a play between reality and fantasy.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487156

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When History Returns

Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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When History Returns

Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

When History Returns brings together psychoanalytic theories of learning with the antinomies of social strife. From a psychoanalytic perspective, history returns through transitional scenes of inheriting a past one could not make, experiencing a present affected by what came before, and facing a future one can neither know nor predict. Taking such scenes as the subject of education, Deborah P. Britzman provides new approaches and vocabulary for conceptualizing experience and understanding, as expressed in psychoanalysis, literature, film, clinical case studies, and warm pedagogy. Britzman argues that novel quests for humane responsibility take hold in the fallout of understanding, in the feel of history, in imaginative dialogues and missed encounters, and in searches for friendship, belonging, and affiliation. Each chapter charts these quests in contemporary education, carrying readers into the heart of learning and the emotional situations that urge the transitions of difficult knowledge into care for thinking and the questions that follow.

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When History Returns

Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning

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Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning

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The Very Thought of Education

Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions

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Lost Subjects, Contested Objects

Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning

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Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning

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A study of love and hate in learning and an argument for why educators might begin with consideration of these psychical dynamics when interpreting the conflictive dreams of education.

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A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

On the Human Condition in Education

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On the Human Condition in Education

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Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy. A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom provides rich descriptions of the surprising ways individuals handle matters of love and hate when dealing with reading and writing in the classroom. With wit and sharp observations, Deborah P. Britzman advocates for a generous recognition of the vulnerabilities, creativity, and responsibilities of university learning. Britzman develops themes that include the handling of technique in psychoanalysis and pedagogy, the uses of theory, regression to adolescence, the inner life of gender, the untold story of the writing block, and everyday mistakes in teaching and learning. She also examines the relationship between mental health and experiences of teaching and learning.

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1438457332

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Freud and Education

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah P. Britzman, explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach.

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After-Education

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

By: Deborah P. Britzman

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Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning

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Book's by Deborah P. Britzman

Practice Makes Practice

Practice Makes Practice

Practice Makes Practice

Practice Makes Practice

The Very Thought of Education

The Very Thought of Education

A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein

Novel Education

Novel Education

Freud and Education

Freud and Education

Lost Subjects, Contested Objects

Lost Subjects, Contested Objects

After-Education

After-Education

When History Returns

When History Returns

When History Returns

When History Returns

The Very Thought of Education

The Very Thought of Education

Lost Subjects, Contested Objects

Lost Subjects, Contested Objects

A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

Freud and Education

Freud and Education

After-Education

After-Education

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