On the self: Discourses of mental health and education

Julie Allan, Valerie Harwood

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Abstract

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 in education in order to scrutinise the ‘focal points of experience’ for children and young people. Part one of the book 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, and potentially radical, ways of when and how the self might speak. It also articulates how teachers may support children and young people in giving voice to these counter-narratives as they move through school.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages325
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9783031109966
ISBN (Print)9783031109959, 9783031109980
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameThe language of mental health
ISSN (Print)2946-4374
ISSN (Electronic)2946-4382

Keywords

  • the self in education
  • systemic educational interventions
  • Self-esteem in children and young adults
  • Foucault
  • wellbeing in schools
  • Psychopathology at school
  • discourses of the self
  • mental health
  • youth mental health
  • education

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