TY - BOOK
T1 - Teacher Education and the Political
T2 - The power of negative thinking
AU - Clarke, Matthew
AU - Phelan, Anne
PY - 2017/1/18
Y1 - 2017/1/18
N2 - 2016 marks the centenary of Democracy and Education, in which Dewey argued for the mutually dependent relationship linking a legitimate education system and a thriving democracy. A century later, it seems, democracy and education have been decoupled, with both undermined by developments such as growing inequality, declining participation and trust in democratic processes, techno-rationalism that reframes political issues in terms of efficiency, and growing political extremism. Meanwhile, recent years have seen the increasing grip of market-based principles and techniques of measurement and evaluation as state-endorsed norms across various sectors and domains of society, including education, reflecting an instrumentalism Lacan described in terms of ‘the service of goods’. Against this background, this paper draws on resources from political and psychoanalytic theory to rethink and reanimate the links between education and democracy, thereby encouraging and emboldening educators to, in David Harvey’s words, “write the poetry of their own future”.
AB - 2016 marks the centenary of Democracy and Education, in which Dewey argued for the mutually dependent relationship linking a legitimate education system and a thriving democracy. A century later, it seems, democracy and education have been decoupled, with both undermined by developments such as growing inequality, declining participation and trust in democratic processes, techno-rationalism that reframes political issues in terms of efficiency, and growing political extremism. Meanwhile, recent years have seen the increasing grip of market-based principles and techniques of measurement and evaluation as state-endorsed norms across various sectors and domains of society, including education, reflecting an instrumentalism Lacan described in terms of ‘the service of goods’. Against this background, this paper draws on resources from political and psychoanalytic theory to rethink and reanimate the links between education and democracy, thereby encouraging and emboldening educators to, in David Harvey’s words, “write the poetry of their own future”.
U2 - 10.4324/9781315732671
DO - 10.4324/9781315732671
M3 - Book
SN - 9781138840744
T3 - Foundations and Futures of Education
BT - Teacher Education and the Political
PB - Routledge
ER -