Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation (Psychoanalysis, Education, 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. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Identity, Motivation, and Recognition....Pages 3-15 Linguistic Identity....Pages 17-30 Affective and Imagistic Identity....Pages 31-43 Identity Integration and Defenses....Pages 45-58 Identity Structure....Pages 59-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Teachers’ Identities as Obstacles to Radical Pedagogy....Pages 75-84 Authoritarian and Establishment Pedagogies....Pages 85-94 Pedagogies of Resistance and Empowerment....Pages 95-107 Historicism as Impediment to Radical Pedagogy....Pages 109-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-133 Self Analysis for Teachers....Pages 135-147 Generative Identity and the Need to Teach....Pages 149-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Supporting Prosocial Identity Contents....Pages 161-177 Promoting Identity Integration....Pages 179-191 Developing Identity Structures....Pages 193-207 Back Matter....Pages 209-229 "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 Annotation Radical Pedagogyargues 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 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