Overview
- Animates Žižek’s ideas in various educational contexts
- Engages cutting edge research work using Žižek’s ideas
- Demonstrates the value of Žižek’s ideas for practitioners
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)
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Žižek demands we take a long, hard look at the painful reality of education in contemporary capitalist society, and to actively seek out its ‘trouble in paradise’: Why is it education is supposedly failing to meet the demands of our society? Why is it there are record levels of stress for teachers? Why is it there is a record level of complaints from our university students? How is it now possible to compare a higher education course with a vacuum cleaner, toaster or television? This book illuminates aspects of Žižek’s ideas which sheds light into these modern challenges and tensions in education, and considers alternative ways forward. Though Žižek frustrates as much as he inspires with his own recipe of Lacan, Hegel and Marx, this book aims to give an entry route into Žižekian critique of education, a topic area he very rarely directly talks about.
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Book Title: Slavoj Žižek
Book Subtitle: A Žižekian Gaze at Education
Authors: Tony Wall, David Perrin
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21242-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21241-8Published: 10 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21242-5Published: 30 June 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 64
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Teaching and Teacher Education