Psychologized Language in Education: Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth

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This book explores how psychologized language has come to dominate education and schooling. Taking a critical lens to some major constructs in education—e.g. the mind, the self, identity, emotion, emotional intelligence, motivation, culture, language and meaning—and their grounding in psychologized discourses, the authors suggest possible ways to overcome these psychologized discourses and remedy their consequences. The book invites readers to move away from static, reified conceptualizations to a more active, social understanding of what education is all about. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Schooling in the Western World (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 11-20 Dualisms (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 21-31 Mind Blowing–Blowing Mind (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 33-39 Individuate, Divide and Reign (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 41-49 The Self (Intensive Adjective or Being) Authentic, Hiding or Material? (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 51-55 Identity (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 57-66 Emotion, Emotional Intelligence and Motivation (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 67-78 Culture, a Modern Cage? (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 79-84 Making Sense of Language (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 85-97 Meaning Not Exact (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 99-105 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 The Psychologized Approach Reviewed (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 109-118 The Materialist Critique (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 119-134 Learning/Knowledge and Schooling (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 135-148 Abandoning Our Fixation with the Individual Mind: The Path Beyond Psychologized Language (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 149-166 The Work of Learning, the Learning of Work (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 167-186 Conclusion (Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas)....Pages 187-203 Back Matter ....Pages 205-212