Knowing and Not Knowing

Claudia Lapping is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Her main research interests are the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity, and the use of psychoanalysis within empirical social research. She is author of Psychoanalysis in Social Research: Shifting theories and reframing concepts (Routledge, 2011); and of recent journal articles in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and Qualitative Inquiry.Tamara Bibby is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Early Years and Primary Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. She has a background in primary education and is particularly interested in psychosocial dimensions of student and teacher experiences of learning. She is currently completing an ESRC funded seminar project: ‘Bridging the Structure/Agency Divide: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disadvantage and Education’. She is author of Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms (Routledge, 2010); and of a recent journal article in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

• Introduction - Journal as methodological archive: introduction to a cataloguing system for insecure knowledge 1. Interrupting the frame: reflective practice in the classroom and the consulting room 2. Bringing up gender: academic abjection? 3. Writing in a foreign language as a science of writing or grammatology 4. The enjoyment of space: the university campus in students’ narratives and photography 5. Learning to fail and learning from failure – ideology at work in a mathematics classroom 6. Reconstructing memory through the archives: public pedagogy, citizenship and Letizia Battaglia’s photographic record of mafia violence 7. Psychoanalytic notes on the status of depression in curriculum affected by histories of loss 8. Explorations in knowing: thinking psychosocially about legitimacy 9. Going spiral? Phenomena of ‘half-knowledge’ in the experiential large group as temporary learning community

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