Deborah Britzman

Deborah Britzman
Academic background
EducationB.A., M.A., Ed.D, University of Massachusetts in Amherst
ThesisReality and ritual: an ethnographic study of student teachers
Academic work
InstitutionsBinghamton University
York University

Deborah P. Britzman FRSC is a practicing psychoanalyst and professor at York University. Britzman's research connects psychoanalysis with contemporary pedagogy,[1] teacher education, social inequality, identity formation, queer theory,[2] problems of intolerance and historical crisis.[3][4]

Early life and education

Britzman completed her undergraduate degree in teaching at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She then taught high school English for seven years. Britzman completed a master's degree in Reading and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts and earned her doctoral degree in ethnographic research in 1985.[5]

Career

Britzman was hired as an assistant professor at Binghamton University. Seven years after she began teaching at Binghamton, she moved to Canada to teach at York University in Toronto, where she has been since 1992.[5]

Britzman's book Freud and Education, published in 2011 by Routledge Press explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach. It defines how fundamental Freudian concepts such as the psychical apparatus, the drives, the unconscious, and the development of morality are related to the field of education.

In 2013 Britzman was working on a three-year research project titled "the emotional world of teaching: A psychoanalytic inquiry." The project is a study of the psychology of teaching and mental health.[6] She was later named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[7] Two years later, she was awarded the 2015 Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.[8]

In 2016, she was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Association for Teacher Education.[9] The next year, she was named a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-Social Transformations.[10] She was also recognized by York as a University Research Leader.[11]

Awards

Britzman was the first Faculty of Education member to be honoured with the title of York University Distinguished Research Professor.

  • 2017 Tier I York Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-Social Transformations[12]
  • 2016 Canadian Association for Teacher Education Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2015 Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award
  • 2009 Gary A. Olsen Award, presented by JAC- a journal of rhetoric, culture and politics
  • 2007 Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator's Award
  • 2006 York University Distinguished Research Professor
  • 2003 James and Helen Meritt Distinguished Service Award to the Philosophy of Education from Northern Illinois University
  • 1999 The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award
  • 1999 The Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York University

Books

  • Britzman, D. P. (2021). Anticipating Education: Concepts for imagining pedagogy with psychoanalysis. Meyers Educational Press.
  • Britzman, D. P. (2016). Melanie Klein: Early Analysis, Play, and the question of freedom. Springer Press.
  • Britzman, D. P. (2011). Freud and Education. Routledge.
  • Britzman, D. P. (2009). The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the impossible professions. SUNY Press
  • Britzman, D. P. (2006). Novel Education: Psychoanalytic Studies on learning and not learning. Peter Lang
  • Britzman, D. P. (2003). Practice Makes Practice: Revised edition. SUNY Press[13]
  • Britzman, D. P. (2003). After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and psychoanalytic histories of learning. SUNY Press
  • Britzman, D. P. (1998). Lost subjects, contested objects: toward a psychoanalytic inquiry of learning. SUNY Press[14][15]

References

  1. ^ Jon Davison; John Moss (11 September 2002). Issues in English Teaching. Routledge. pp. 221–. ISBN 978-1-134-62436-2.
  2. ^ Britzman, D. (2012). Queer pedagogy and its strange techniques. Counterpoints (367): Sexualities in Education.
  3. ^ James D. Kirylo (4 November 2013). A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-94-6209-374-4.
  4. ^ Lynda Stone; Gail Masuchika Boldt (1994). The Education Feminism Reader. Psychology Press. pp. 349–. ISBN 978-0-415-90793-4.
  5. ^ a b "Deborah P. Britzman CV" (PDF). maynoothuniversity.ie. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  6. ^ Renee J. Martin (31 August 1995). Practicing What We Teach: Confronting Diversity in Teacher Education. SUNY Press. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-0-7914-2550-3.
  7. ^ "Prof receives prestigious award, three others named Fellows of RSC". yfile.news.yorku.ca. September 6, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  8. ^ "Professor Deborah Britzman earns Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award". yfile.news.yorku.ca. November 17, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  9. ^ "Deborah Britzman awarded Lifetime Achievement Award". yfile.news.yorku.ca. May 30, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  10. ^ "York University appoints seven new York Research Chairs". yfile.news.yorku.ca. April 6, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  11. ^ "York University's Research Leaders' Gala recognizes high-calibre, world-leading research". yfile.news.yorku.c. April 4, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  12. ^ "York University appoints seven new York Research Chairs". York University. 6 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08.
  13. ^ Geoffrey Shacklock; John Smyth (1 November 2002). Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research. Routledge. pp. 125–. ISBN 978-1-135-71052-1.
  14. ^ Review: "Britzman, Deborah P. (1998) Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press" Archived September 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Reviewed by Victoria I. Muñoz, Wells College, May 23, 1999
  15. ^ Deborah Youdell (1 November 2010). School Trouble: Identity, Power and Politics in Education. Routledge. pp. 102–. ISBN 978-1-136-88418-4.
  • Richards, C. (2011). Young People, Popular Culture and Education. Continuum International Publishing Group. P. 39
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