Relevant publications
The following publications are intended to provide a useful background to the presentations and discussions in the seminars.
Seminar 1: Political and sociological perspectives: the British context
- An even better children's plan
www.evenbetterchildrensplan.org.uk - Antidote (2003) The Emotional Literacy Handbook, London: David Fulton
- Connecting for a Change: promoting emotional health and wellbeing
www.ehalliance.org.uk - Ecclestone, K and Hayes, D (2008) The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, London: Routledge
- Furedi, F. (2003) Therapy Culture: cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age, London: Routledge
- Layard, R (2005) Happiness: lessons from a new science, London: Allen Lane
- Park, J and Tew, M (2007) Emotional Literacy Pocketbook, London: Teachers’ Pocketbooks
- Taylor, M (2008) Essay for Joseph Rowntree Foundation, London:RSA
- Thompson, M (2008) Organising and disorganising London: Triarchy Press
Seminar 2: Political and sociological perspectives: international contexts
- Amsler, S. (2008) 'Pedagogy against dis-utopia: from conscientization to the education of desire', Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 25: 291-325.
- Freire, P. (2001) Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage, NY: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Jensen, S. (2008) Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Nolan, J. (2008) Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement, Princeton: University of Princeton Press
- Nolan, J. L (2003) Reinventing Justice: The American Drug Court Movement, Princeton: University of Princeton Press
- Roose, R. and Bouverne-de Bie, M. (2007) Do children have rights or do their rights have to be realised? The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as frame of reference for pedagogic action, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41, 3, 431-442
Seminar 3: Philosophical and theological perspectives
- Augustine (1961), Confessions, tr. R S Pine-Coffin, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- Cottingham, J. (2005), The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (chapters 1 and 4).
- Dienstag, J. (2006), Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. (chapter 1)
- Freud, S. Civilisation and its Discontent, SE 21, (pp.59-145, especially section 2).
- Freud, S. and Breuer, J. (1895) Studies in Hysteria, Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Freud, tr. J. Strachey, Volume 2, London: Hogarth Press (pp.304-05).
- Hadot, P. ([1987]1995) Philosophy as a Way of Life, trans. A. I. Davidson, Oxford: Blackwell (chapter 3).
- Heartfield, J. (2001) The 'Death of the Subject' Explained, Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University.
- Lake, F. (1966) Clinical Theology: A Theological and Psychiatric Basis to Clinical Pastoral Care, London: Darton, Longman & Todd
- Layard, R. (2005), Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- Malik, K. (2000) Man, Beast or Zombie, London: Weidenfield.
- Nussbaum, M. (1994) The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (chapters 1 and 13).
- Wittgenstein, L. (1996) Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, Oxford: Blackwell (pp.22-27).
Seminar 4: Psychological perspectives
To be confirmed.
Seminar 5: Historical perspectives
To be confirmed.
Seminar 6: Implications for education policy and practice
To be confirmed.
