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Desire, Education and Teaching: A Lacanian Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Desire, Education and Teaching A Lacanian Perspective

By Håvard Åsvoll Copyright 2025
174 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring the implications of a novel theory of educational desire on the prevailing modes of educational research and theory, this book contextualises the realm of education studies through the challenging philosophies and theories of Lacan, thereby providing a genuinely alternative approach to the study of education. Structured into three main parts, the book provides a discussion of Lacanian... Read more

Preface

PART 1 Introduction and theorising desire

1.     Introduction

2.     Towards a theory of desire in education and teaching

3.     Narrowing the scope: The enjoyable desire

4.     What forms could this desire take in education?

5.     How, then, does one respond to desire?

6.     Lacanian-oriented literature on teaching and education

PART 2 Desire in teaching

7.     Vignettes of desire in teaching

Section 1 The dynamics of teachers discourse

Section 2 The "fixation of the other" and "the appearances of disruptive real" in teacher practice 

Section 3 Remarks on vignetttes

Section 4 Summary and reflection

PART 3 Implications and reflections on desire for educational theory and practice

8.     Implications for theory: Theory as different modes of the gaze

9.     Implications for teaching

10.   Concluding considerations: Desire as the revitalising education and teacher practice

Biography

Håvard Åsvoll is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Studies in Teacher Education, University of Inland Norway, Norway.

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