Aborigines of the Imaginary: Applying Lacan to Aboriginal Education

Autor/in	Harrison, Neil
Titel	Aborigines of the Imaginary: Applying Lacan to Aboriginal Education
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 40 (2012) 1, S.5-14 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-866X
DOI	10.1080/1359866X.2011.643764
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; Teacher Education; Indigenous Populations; Intellectual Property; Cultural Awareness; Foreign Countries; Psychotherapy; Professional Development; Student Attitudes; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Sinti und Roma; Geistiges Eigentum; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Ausland; Psychotherapie; Schülerverhalten; Australien
Abstract	This paper applies the work of Jacques Lacan, a French psychoanalyst, to decipher the desire of the teacher in Aboriginal education. It argues that the images of Aboriginal people represented in Australian classrooms are effects of the teacher's Imaginary, the Imaginary being one of the three psychoanalytic domains theorised by Lacan over a period of 30 years of teaching. The author questions whether it is possible for teacher education courses to move the student teacher beyond the Imaginary, and beyond the inventions of Aboriginal people that he or she has produced in his or her own mind. A possible way out of this endless cycle of romantic idealism and deficiency is proposed outside the usual approaches to cultural awareness training and professional development. (As Provided).
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