Description: This revised edition of the classic text explores the complexity of what learning to teach means.
Brief description: Deborah P. Britzman is the author of Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning; The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions; and A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom: On the Human Condition in Education, all published by SUNY Press, among many other books.
Review Quotes: The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis, discussing why we might return to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition is an insightful "hidden chapter" that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession.