When History Returns: Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning

by Deborah P Britzman

Book Overview

When History Returns brings together psychoanalytic theories of learning with the antinomies of social strife. From a psychoanalytic perspective, history returns through transitional scenes of inheriting a past one could not make, experiencing a present affected by what came before, and facing a future one can neither know nor predict. Taking such scenes as the subject of education, Deborah P. Britzman provides new approaches and vocabulary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438497741
• ISBN13: 9781438497747
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"