Education - An 'Impossible Profession'? : Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms (Paperback)

1. Introduction  2. The Primary Task of the School?  3. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Lacanian Mirror in the Classroom  4. Accountability: Winnicott in the Playless Classroom  5. Tall Poppies and Shrinking Violets: Freud, Foulkes and the Nature of Groups  6. Group Processes: Bion and the Desire Not to Know  7. When Does the Lesson Start? Thoughts, Thinking, Learning and Knowing  8. But I Think Best with My Friends: Thinking in Relationships  9. Being ‘Good Enough’: Resisting Idealisations and Taking the Risk to ‘Fail Better’