On The Self Discourses Of Mental Health And Education Julie Allan by Julie Allan, Valerie Harwood 9783031109959, 3031109953 instant download after payment.

This book examines the emergence of psychologised discourses of the self in education and considers their effects on children and young people, on relationships both in and out of school and on educational practices. It undertakes a Foucauldian genealogy of the discourses of the self (Foucault, 1997) in education in order to scrutinise the ‘focal points of experience’ for children and young people. The book uncovers counter-narratives that enable the self to continue to flourish, but in alternative, and potentially radical, ways. It endeavours to articulate how teachers may support children and young people in giving voice to these counter-narratives as they move through school. The book is in two parts. Part one offers a critical analysis of the discourses of the self that operate within interventions of self esteem, self concept, self efficacy and self regulation and their incursions into education. Part two provides counter-narratives of the self, drawn principally from the arts and politics and providing alternative ways of when and how the self might speak.