Fanon Education Action

Bridging childhood studies pedagogy and educational theory critical psychology and postcolonial studies this unique book reads the role and functions of âthe childâ and childhood as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon. Based on innovative readings of Fanon and postcolonial cultural studies the book offers new insights for critical pedagogical and transformative practice in forging crucial links not only between the political and the psychological but between distress therapy and (personal and political) learning and transformation. Structured around four indicative and distinct forms of âchildâ read from Fanonâs texts (Idiotic Traumatogenic Therapeutic Extemic) the author discusses both educational and therapeutic practices. The pedagogical links the political with the personal and Fanonâs revolutionary psychoaffective account offers vital resources to inform these. Finally the book presents âchild as methodâ as a new analytical approach by which to read the geopolitical which shows childhood education and critical psychological studies to be key to these at the level of theory method and practice. By interrogating contemporary modalities of childhood as modern economic and political tropes the author offers conceptual and methodological resources for practically engaging with and transforming these. This book will be vital and fascinating reading for students and scholars in psychology psychoanalysis education and childhood studies gender studies postcolonial studies and mental health. . Language: English