The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education (Tavistock Clinic)

"This collection of essays created from lectures in a Tavistock Clinic course is superb. It is accessible, clear, sensitive and sensible. It is recommended to teachers and others interested in the present educational situation, and in particular, in the difficulty that is in current policy in linking emotional intelligence and relationships with the wider ambitions of education policy and regulation.

It is particularly timely that a writer is sufficiently bold to challenge current orthodoxy and compliance. Tne national curriculum and testing and Ofsted may have their place, but, at the heart of the matter, lies the matter of making relationships with children and young people. The observations and vignettes in this volume illustrate convincingly the power of observation, reflection and thought about the relationships on which students rely if they are to feel placed, that their needs are met and that there is someone in their educational institution, who has them in mind and in the mind's eye. "
~ Written on 2008-11-08