Love's Return: Psychoanalytic Essays on Childhood, Teaching, and Learning

by Boldt; Gail Masuchika

• ISBN13: 9780415952057
• ISBN10: 0415952050
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The idea that educators love children is often taken for granted--even thought it's often the most common reason teacher education students give for getting into the profession. This collection brings together the work of educators, critical theorists, and clinical psychoanalysts as they explore the role of love in education. The contributors to this collection employ a psychoanalytic framework to examine issues including the absence of an official discourse pertaining to love and education; love and other emotions in forms of teaching and care-giving; and the intersection of love and the classroom. Among other things, the book argues that our failure to recognize emotions can surface in the form of conflicts in the classroom and elsewhere. The chapters, grounded in research, draw on autobiographical and narrative case studies.

Table of Contents

The interludes : an introduction to reading and using this book	p. 9
Interlude I : scenes of love and control	p. 13
I love them to death	p. 19
Savage inequalities indeed : irrationality and urban school reform	p. 33
Interlude II : scenes from the black couch	p. 61
On the vicissitudes of love and hate : Anne Sexton's pedagogy of loss and reparation	p. 65
Mother Love's education	p. 87
Interlude III : the painful politics of love and history	p. 107
Transnational adoption and queer diasporas	p. 113
Parenting and the narcissistic demands of whiteness	p. 143
Interlude IV : the child's question	p. 161
Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and little Oedipus : on the pleasures and disappointments of sexual enlightenment	p. 165
On knowing and desiring children : the significance of the unthought known	p. 185
Interlude V : curriculum and the erotics of learning	p. 203
Romantic research : why we love to read	p. 207
Reading, writing, and the wrath of my father	p. 227
Love in the classroom : desire and transference in learning and teaching	p. 243
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