Schooling Desire

Education at Mount Saint Vincent University.

"...raises vitally important questions about the ultimate purposes of education." -- Educational Theory, Fall 1999."...this book has much to offer graduate students in curriculum studies, literacy education, and feminist studies in education." -- Canadian Journal of Education"Schooling Desire elaborates a transformative vision of education committed undermining oppressive sociocultural relations through the interventions of critical literacy. The seven chapter volume does not offer a lingering or gentle read, though it is well informed, creatively structured, and charged with flashes of poetic sensibility. Explicitly grounding her work on the theoretical terrain of feminist poststructuralism, cultural studies, and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Kelly ambitiously combines an exegetical and deconstructive aim with a critical and constructive one. Her expressed hope is to lay out a vision of progressive movement in education, a vision attentive to desire's slippery provocations and problematic performances in schooled subjects." -- SIGNS, Autumn 2000

• Introduction: Schooling Desire Literarcy, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy One: Re/Conceptualizations Literacy, Desire, and Pedagogy Two: Word and Flesh Language, Text, and the Incarnation of Desire Three: Telltale Signs Auto/biography, Schooling, and the Subject of Desire Four: Incessant Culture The Promise of the Popular Five: The Dream's Malfunction The Back Alleys of Desire Six: Without Mirrors The Project of Difference Seven: Passion Designs Eros, Pedagogy, and the (Re)Negotiation of Desire