Psychologized Language in Education: Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth

Focuses on the ways that normative language/vocabulary use works to shape students' and teachers' perceptions of identity and difference

Challenges educators to use theory, language, and concepts to think and act differently

Chapters contain dialogue between the King and the Slave who debate lively various contentious issues raised in the book


Author: Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781137549365

About the Author
Zvi Bekerman is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His main interests are in the study of cultural, ethnic, and national identity, including identity processes and negotiation during intercultural encounters and in formal/informal learning contexts.
Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. He has written extensively on emotion and affect in relation to social justice pedagogies, intercultural and peace education, human rights education, and citizenship education.