Topologies of Desire: Fantasies and Their Symptoms in Educational Policy Futures

Autor/in	Saari, Antti
Titel	Topologies of Desire: Fantasies and Their Symptoms in Educational Policy Futures
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 21 (2022) 6, S.883-899 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Saari, Antti)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/1474904120988389
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Futures (of Society); Educational Environment; Resistance to Change; Fantasy; Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Future; Society; Zukunft; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Fantasie; Ausland; Bildungsreform; Finnland
Abstract	This article studies topological reflexivity in educational policy discourse, when policy is considered in terms of eradicating the distances involved and increasing mobility and commensurability. Topological reflexivity is critically evaluated from a Lacanian point of view as a form of political fantasy which structures reality within the coordinates of desire. The article also unpacks two prominent symptoms of fantasy -- dislocation and paradoxical elements -- that subvert the functioning of these very same fantasies. First, while heralding imminent fulfilment and the promise of pleasure in new learning environments, these discourses are also obliged to keep the object of desire at a certain distance. Second, while educational policy discourse is founded on subjective autonomy and a freedom to develop learning environments, it implicitly requires teachers and schools to implement new learning environments and to take pleasure in doing so. Attempts to grapple with these symptoms of fantasy take the form of denying not only the repetition inherent in such discourses, but also the othering of teachers who express resistance to such changes. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01