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Author Block, Alan A., 1947-

Title I'm only bleeding : education as the practice of social violence against children / Alan A. Block
Published New York : Peter Lang, [1997]
©1997

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Description vi, 190 pages ; 23 cm
Series Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 10
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 10
Contents Ch. I. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) -- Ch. II. Object Relations: Being, the Self and the School -- Ch. III. The Stuff of Dreams -- Ch. IV. Staging the Dream Asleep and Awake -- Ch. V. Walking and Curriculum -- Ch. VI. Walking, Curriculum, and Neuroscience -- Ch. VII. School as the Product of the Adult Fantasy of a World Without Children -- Ch. VIII. The Social Construction of the Child by the Adult
Summary I'm Only Bleeding: Education as the Practice of Social Violence Against Children is an examination of the violence that education presently practices on our children. Using a paradigm steeped in object relations theory and its resulting psychoanalytic practice and in recent research in the burgeoning field of neuroscience, the book examines the growth of the child's psychological self and portrays the destructive effects that the idea and practice of schools and curriculum have on that development. This book explores the construction of the idea of the child as a product of adult needs and the schools as a place where children may be confined until they may be considered socially useful
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-183) and index
Subject Child development -- United States.
Curriculum change -- United States.
Curriculum planning -- United States.
Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
Object relations (Psychoanalysis) -- United States.
Postmodernism and education -- United States.
LC no. 96031810
ISBN 0820426849 (alk. paper)
Other Titles I am only bleeding