Book Overview

This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational settings. It explores the origins of learning in children’s early relationships and examines factors that help and hinder the educational process in later childhood and adolescence.

Topics Addressed

Amongst the topics addressed in the book are the significance of play and playfulness, the impact of change, separation, times of transition, bereavement, bullying, and racism.

Author’s Approach

The author has aimed to set well-established psychoanalytic ideas about learning within current educational practice and to look at the teacher’s experience alongside that of the students.