1st Edition

Educational Dilemmas A Cultural Psychological Perspective

Edited By Luca Tateo Copyright 2019
    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    Educational Dilemmas uses cultural psychology to explore the challenges, contradictions and tensions that occur during the process of education, with consideration of the effect these have at both the individual and the collective level. It argues that the focus on issues in learning overlooks a fundamental characteristic of education: that the process of educating is simultaneously both constructive and disruptive.





    Drawing on research from Europe, America and Asia, chapters in this volume present and analyse different experiences of the tension between disruption and construction in the process of education. Situating educational discontent within the wider context, the book demonstrates how this issue can be exacerbated by the tension between the commodification and democratisation of educational systems. This book demonstrates that these issues permeate all levels of education and, as a result, emphasises how vital it is that educational discontent is considered from a new perspective.





    Educational Dilemmas is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of psychology and education. It should also be of great interest to school psychologists, teachers and therapists.

    Introduction - The inherent ambivalence of educational trajectories and the zone of proximal development with reduced potential



    Luca Tateo





    Chapter 1 – Intrinsic education and its discontents



    Eugene Matusov and Ana Marjanovic-Shane





    Chapter 2 - Stress – between welfare and competition



    Thomas Szulevicz, Lærke Kromann Kure and Lillith Olsen Løkken





    Chapter 3 - Problems from discontinuity of children’s environment and development in Japan



    Yoriko Okamoto Omi





    Chapter 4 - Mental health 101: interpreting emotional distress for Canadian postsecondary students



    Karen H. Ross





    Chapter 5 - Counseling for university students



    Giulia Savarese, Oreste Fasano, Nadia Pecoraro, Monica Mollo, Luna Carpinelli and Pierpaolo Cavallo





    Chapter 6 - The discomfort of writing in academia



    Noomi Matthiesen and Charlotte Wegener





    Chapter 7 - In deep water: university students’ challenges in the processes of self-formation, survival or flight



    Casper Feilberg





    Chapter 8 - Corporal punishment in extracurricular sports activities (bukatsu) represents an aspect of Japanese culture



    Yasuhiro Omi





    Chapter 9 - "I see stress in many places around me, but as such, I'm over it": understanding psycho-cultural dimensions of university students’ experiences



    Pernille Hammer, Thomas Madsen and Luca Tateo





    Chapter 10 - Internship as liminal zone in education



    Enrica Mele and Giuseppina Marsico





    Afterword on educational dilemmas



    Luca Tateo

    Biography



    Luca Tateo is Associate Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is a member of the Research Center for Cultural Psychology, Member of the Centre IBEF (Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future), ECNU in Shanghai, and visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil.