A Lacanian Theory of Curriculum in Higher Education

The Unfinished Symptom
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-99764-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 258 g

This volume presents a distinctively Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the theorizing, understanding, and critique of curriculum in higher education. In this work, the author presents the main theories of curriculum in the current discourse, develops a notion of critique, and applies it to existing global guidelines for curriculum reform. Relying on the architectonic of the subject as developed across the work of Jacques Lacan—expressed in the registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real—the author provides a new approach to understanding curriculum in terms of the psychic dynamics that explain its workings.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murillo, Fernando M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Hochschuldidaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Formation of the Subject: Curriculum as an Unfinished Symptom.- Chapter 3. Critique: Between Theory and Method.- Chapter 4. Analyzing Symptoms in Policy: A Psychoanalytic Reading.- Chapter 5. Concluding Thoughts.

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando M. Murillo holds a PhD in Curriculum Studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His current work focuses on education, psychoanalysis, and German educational theory and philosophy.