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Title: Aborigines of the imaginary : applying Lacan to aboriginal education
Related: Asia-Pacific journal of teacher education, Vol. 40, No. 1, (2012), p.5-14
DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2011.643764
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2012
Author/Creator: Harrison, Neil
Description: This paper applies the work of Jacques Lacan, a French psychoanalyst, to decipher the desire of the teacher in Aboriginal education. It argues that the images of Aboriginal people represented in Australian classrooms are effects of the teacher's Imaginary, the Imaginary being one of the three psychoanalytic domains theorised by Lacan over a period of 30 years of teaching. The author questions whether it is possible for teacher education courses to move the student teacher beyond the Imaginary, and beyond the inventions of Aboriginal people that he or she has produced in his or her own mind. A possible way out of this endless cycle of romantic idealism and deficiency is proposed outside the usual approaches to cultural awareness training and professional development.
Description: 10 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Aboriginal education
Subject Keyword: enlightenment
Subject Keyword: Imaginary
Subject Keyword: Lacan
Subject Keyword: style
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Education

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