Changing the Subject: The Educational Implications of Developing Emotional Well-Being

Autor/inn/en	Ecclestone, Kathryn; Hayes, Dennis
Titel	Changing the Subject: The Educational Implications of Developing Emotional Well-Being
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 35 (2009) 3, S.371-389 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
Schlagwörter	Well Being; Affective Behavior; Adjustment (to Environment); Educational Practices; Academic Achievement; Social Justice; Debate; Politics of Education; School Business Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Bildungspraxis; Schulleistung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Debating; Streitgespräch; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Claims that emotional well-being is synonymous with successful educational practices and outcomes resonate with contemporary political portrayal of well-being as integral to "social justice". In Britain, diverse concerns are creating an "ad hoc" array of therapeutic interventions to develop and assess attributes, dispositions and attitudes associated with emotional well-being, alongside growing calls to harness subject content and teaching activities as vehicles for a widening array of affective outcomes. There has been little public or academic debate about the educational implications of these developments for the aspirations of liberal humanist education. This article addresses this gap. Drawing on philosophical, political and sociological studies, it explores how preoccupation with emotional well-being attacks the "subject" in two inter-related senses; the human subject and subject knowledge. It argues that it is essential to challenge claims and assumptions about well-being and the government-sponsored academic, professional and commercial industry which promotes them. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10