ABSTRACT
The idea that teachers love children is often taken for granted in education. Rarely is the idea of love itself examined. Bringing together the work of educators, curriculum theorists and clinical psychoanalysts, and drawing upon autobiographical and narrative case studies, this groundbreaking collection examines the collision of love and learning, including the ways in which such intersections are provoked, repressed and denied. Contributors turn to psychoanalysis to explore questions of love in all of its varying permutations - ambivalence, sexuality, hatred, desire, projection, and loss - in order to demonstrate how the social ramifications of such work is critical to the ways teachers are currently being prepared for life in the classroom.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |48 pages
Scenes of Love and Control
part |45 pages
Scenes from the Black Couch
part |54 pages
The Painful Politics of Love and History
part |42 pages
The Child's Question
chapter |20 pages
Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Little Oedipus
part |63 pages
Curriculum and the Erotics of Learning