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Deborah Britzman

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Deborah Britzman is a professor and a practicing psychoanalyst at York University. Britzman's research connects psychoanalysis with contemporary pedagogy,[1] teacher education, social inequality, problems of intolerance and historical crisis.[2][3]

Early life and education

Britzman completed her undergraduate degree in teaching at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She then taught high school English for seven years. Britzman completed a master’s degree in Reading and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts and earned her doctoral degree in ethnographic research in 1985.

Career

Britzman was hired as an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Seven years after she began teaching at SUNY, she moved to Canada to teach at the York University in Toronto, where she has been since 1992.

Britzman developed an interest in theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis and in 2001 began to train as a psychoanalyst. She later entered a psychoanalytic institute, and upon completion opened a small private practice and achieved the designation of psychoanalyst. She continues to this date to teach at York University.

Current academic work and focus

In 2013 Britzman was working on a three year research project titled "the emotional world of teaching: A psychoanalytic inquiry." The project is a study of the psychology of teaching and mental health.[4]

Britzman’s book Freud and Education, published in 2011 by Routledge Press explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach. It defines how fundamental Freudian concepts such as the psychical apparatus, the drives, the unconscious, and the development of morality are related to the field of education.

Awards

Britzman was the first Faculty of Education member to be honoured with the title of York University Distinguished Research Professor.

  • 2009 Gary A. Olsen Award, presented by JAC- a journal of rhetoric, culture and politics
  • 2007 Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator’s Award
  • 2006 York University Distinguished Research Professor
  • 2003 James and Helen Meritt Distinguished Service Award to the Philosophy of Education from Northern Illinois University
  • 1999 The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award
  • 1999 The Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York University

Books

  • Britzman, D. P. (2011). Freud and Education. Routledge
  • Ngo, B., & Britzman, D. P. (2010). Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students. SUNY Press.
  • Britzman, D. P. (2009). The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the impossible professions. SUNY Press
  • Britzman, D. P. (2006). Novel Education: Psychoanalytic Studies on learning and not learning. Peter Lang
  • Alsup, J., & Britzman, D.P. (2005). Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating personal and professional spaces. Routledge
  • Britzman, D. P., & Greene, M. (2003). Practice Makes Practice: Revised edition. SUNY Press[5]
  • Britzman, D. P. (2003). After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and psychoanalytic histories of learning. SUNY Press
  • Britzman, D. P. (1998). Lost subjects, constested objects: toward a psychoanalytic inquiry of learning. SUNY Press[6][7]

References

  1. ^ Jon Davison; John Moss (11 September 2002). Issues in English Teaching. Routledge. pp. 221–. ISBN 978-1-134-62436-2.
  2. ^ James D. Kirylo (4 November 2013). A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-94-6209-374-4.
  3. ^ Lynda Stone; Gail Masuchika Boldt (1994). The Education Feminism Reader. Psychology Press. pp. 349–. ISBN 978-0-415-90793-4.
  4. ^ Renee J. Martin (31 August 1995). Practicing What We Teach: Confronting Diversity in Teacher Education. SUNY Press. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-0-7914-2550-3.
  5. ^ Geoffrey Shacklock; John Smyth (1 November 2002). Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research. Routledge. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-135-71052-1.
  6. ^ Review: "Britzman, Deborah P. (1998) Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press". Reviewed by Victoria I. Muñoz, Wells College, May 23, 1999
  7. ^ Deborah Youdell (1 November 2010). School Trouble: Identity, Power and Politics in Education. Routledge. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-1-136-88418-4.
  • Richards, C. (2011). Young People, Popular Culture and Education. Continuum International Publishing Group. P. 39
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