Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation (Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation)

Radical Pedagogy argues that longstanding pedagogical aims and practices are ineffective in promoting learning and social change and proposes a new strategy for achieving these ends. Drawing on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology, and cognitive science, Mark Bracher argues that the most effective way to solve social problems such as violence, prejudice, and substance abuse on a mass scale, as well as impediments to learning and personal well being, is through a pedagogy that addresses their common root cause: identity vulnerability. To this end, Bracher formulates psychoanalytically based practices to develop more resilient, secure, and prosocial identities for both teachers and students. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Part One: Identity, Learning Problems, and Social Problems......Page 16 1 Identity, Motivation, and Recognition......Page 18 2 Linguistic Identity......Page 32 3 Affective and Imagistic Identity......Page 46 4 Identity Integration and Defenses......Page 60 5 Identity Structure......Page 74 Part Two: Identity-Undermining Pedagogies......Page 88 6 Teachers' Identities as Obstacles to Radical Pedagogy......Page 90 7 Authoritarian and Establishment Pedagogies......Page 100 8 Pedagogies of Resistance and Empowerment......Page 110 9 Historicism as Impediment to Radical Pedagogy......Page 124 Part Three: Developing Teachers' Identities......Page 148 10 Self Analysis for Teachers......Page 150 11 Generative Identity and the Need to Teach......Page 164 Part Four: Promoting Students' Identity Development......Page 174 12 Supporting Prosocial Identity Contents......Page 176 13 Promoting Identity Integration......Page 194 14 Developing Identity Structures......Page 208 Notes......Page 224 Works Cited......Page 228 C......Page 238 G......Page 239 I......Page 240 M......Page 241 R......Page 242 S......Page 243 Z......Page 244 "Radical Pedagogy argues that longstanding pedagogical aims and practices are ineffective in promoting learning and social change and proposes a new strategy for achieving these ends. Drawing on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology, and cognitive science, Bracher argues that the most effective way to solve social problems such as violence, prejudice, and substance abuse on a mass scale, as well as impediments to learning and personal well being, is through a pedagogy that addresses their common root cause: identity vulnerability. To this end, Bracher formulates psychoanalytically based practices to develop more resilient, secure, and prosocial identities for both teachers and students."--Publisher's website "Radical Pedagogy argues that longstanding pedagogical aims and practices are ineffective in promoting learning and social change and proposes a new strategy for achieving these ends. Drawing on recent research in psycho-analysis, social psychology, and cognitive science. Mark Bracher argues that the most effective way to solve social problems such as violence, prejudice, and substance abuse on a mass scale, as well as impediments to learning and personal well-being, is through a pedagogy that addresses their common root cause: identity vulnerability. To this end, Bracher formulates psychoanalytically based practices to develop more resilient, secure, and prosocial identities for both teachers and students."--Jacket Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for developing intelligence, personal well being, and the amelioration of social problems, including violence, prejudice and substance abuse. Drawing on the research in psychoanalysis, social psychology, and cognitive science, this book articulates a theory of identity that explains how developing students' identities is a prerequisite for the development of intelligence and the capacity and motivation to learn