Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism: Policy, Politics and Psychoanalysis

Matthew Clarke

Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism: Policy, Politics and Psychoanalysis
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
10 December 2021
Pages
192
ISBN
9780367463588

Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism: Policy, Politics and Psychoanalysis

Matthew Clarke

Education and the Fantasies of Neoliberalism revitalizes conversations about the nature and purpose of education in a global context characterized by concerns about quality and equity in education, reflecting wider economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion.

The book illustrates how Lacanian psychoanalytic theory offers a conceptual vocabulary for exposing and critiquing the fantasmatic nature of policy and practice, while foregrounding the tensions and contradictions they seek to conceal. Specifically, the book draws on ideas of lack, fantasy and desire from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to gain insights into the contentious but disavowed politics of reform in education. The book builds on cutting-edge work in political and psychoanalytic theory to offer unique insights that challenge and contest the simplistic and often trivializing readings of education in contemporary media and political debates.

Offering a novel perspective on education policy reform, this book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of philosophy of education and educational policy and politics.

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