Interrupting the Psy-Disciplines in Education

This book offers critical explorations of how the psy-disciplines, Michel FoucaultÆs collective term for psychiatry, psychology and psycho-analysis, play out in contemporary educational spaces. With a strong focus on FoucaultÆs theories, it critically investigates how the psy-disciplines continue to influence education, both regulating and shaping behaviour and morality. The book provides insight into different educational contexts and concerns across a childÆs educational lifespan; early childhood education, inclusive education, special education, educational leadership, social media, university, and beyond to enable reflection and critique of the implications of psy-based knowledge and practice. With chapters by a mixture of established and emerging international scholars in the field this is an interdisciplinary and authoritative study into the role of the psy-disciplines in the education system. Providing vivid illustrations from throughout the educational lifespan the book serves as an invaluable tool for reflection and critique of the implications of psy-based practice, and will be of particular interest to academics and scholars in the field of education policy and psychology.

• | Author: Eva Bendix Petersen, Zsuzsa Millei
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Education
• | ISBN-10: 1137513047
• | ISBN-13: 9781137513045