The Authors: Tony Brown is Professor of Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University where he heads the research student programme. He has published three previous books: Mathematics Education and Language, Action Research and Postmodernism with co-author Liz Jones, and New Teacher Identity and Regulative Government, written with Olwen McNamara.Dennis Atkinson is Reader in Education at Goldsmiths University of London and Head of the MPhil/Ph.D. Programme in the Department of Educational Studies. He taught for seventeen years in secondary school and is currently Principal Editor of The International Journal of Art and Design Education and has published regularly in academic journals since 1991. He has published two books, Art in Education: Identity and Practice and (edited with Paul Dash) Social and Critical Practice in Art Education.Janice England is a senior teacher who has worked in city schools in Manchester and Stockport for many years. Her doctoral thesis documenting her work with children has led to a number of internationally published papers.

«I found the book a page-turner and recommended it immediately to colleagues and students.» (Elizabeth St. Pierre, British Educational Research Journal)«... this book provides an excellent introduction to some potential uses of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory – particularly in relation to theoretical explorations of teachers' relationships to their own senses of professionalism, policy discourses and practitioner research. Anyone with an interest in these areas will find the book thought provoking and an excellent basis for reflection, discussion and analysis.» (Tamara Bibby, ESCalate)

• Contents: Psychoanalysis and Education – Constructing the Human Subject – Understanding the Pedagogical Object – How Student Teachers Form their Identities – Marginalised Discourses in the Preparation of New Teachers – The Gaze of the Mirror – How Real is the Imaginary? – The Truth of Initial Training Experience – African Tales (with Krista Bradford and Sharon Cargill) – Narrative and Researcher Identity – Haunting the Delusions of Reflection – Emancipatory Aggression – Inclusion, Exclusion and Marginalisation – The Portrayal of Self to the Other.