Matthew Clarke’s book brings a new and devastating critical perspective to bear on education policy … This is a telling and timely book that skilfully deploys psychoanalytic insights to unpack the fantasies that haunt and inhibit education policy – it is exciting, challenging, and important!
– Professor Stephen Ball, University College London
In Lacan and Education Policy, Professor Matthew Clarke uses Lacan’s four discourses to offer a sophisticated critique of recent education policy and the neoliberal model of political economy within which it sits. He articulates possibilities for thinking differently about education and policy beyond reductive neoliberal narratives.
Matthew Clarke’s book provides an insightful and enjoyable foray into an analysis of neoliberal education policies now dominating education systems across the globe … The book contributes to the growing interest in affect theory by providing an account of key concepts such as desire, trauma, and fantasy through the lens of Lacanian theory.
– Professor Parlo Singh, Griffith University, Australia
Lacan and Education Policy is held in the York St John Library catalogue as an eBook.
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