Deborah Britzman

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'''Deborah P. Britzman''' {{post-nominals|list=FRSC}} is a practicing psychoanalyst and professor at York University. Britzman's research connects psychoanalysis with contemporary pedagogy,<ref name="DavisonMoss2002">{{cite book|author1=Jon Davison|author2=John Moss|title=Issues in English Teaching|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBvQ7mUmZZAC&pg=PA221|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-62436-2|pages=221–}}</ref> teacher education, social inequality, identity formation, queer theory,<ref>Britzman, D. (2012). Queer pedagogy and its strange techniques. ''Counterpoints (367): Sexualities in Education''.</ref> problems of intolerance and historical crisis.<ref name="Kirylo2013">{{cite book|author=James D. Kirylo|title=A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQzGBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|date=4 November 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-6209-374-4|pages=13–}}</ref><ref name="StoneBoldt1994">{{cite book|author1=Lynda Stone|author2=Gail Masuchika Boldt|title=The Education Feminism Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssyLemWEd9YC&pg=PA349|year=1994|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-90793-4|pages=349–}}</ref>

==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.<ref name = "CV">{{cite web |title=Deborah P. Britzman CV |url=https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/Britzman%20CV%20_%20April2018_0.pdf |website=maynoothuniversity.ie |accessdate=October 28, 2019}}</ref>

==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.<ref name = "CV"/>

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.<ref name="Martin1995">{{cite book|author=Renee J. Martin|title=Practicing What We Teach: Confronting Diversity in Teacher Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VLPq7BDkrEC&pg=PA176|date=31 August 1995|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-2550-3|pages=176–}}</ref> She was later named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof receives prestigious award, three others named Fellows of RSC |url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2013/09/06/prof-receives-prestigious-award-three-others-named-fellows-of-rsc/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=October 28, 2019 |date=September 6, 2013}}</ref> Two years later, she was awarded the 2015 Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Deborah Britzman earns Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award |url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2015/11/17/professor-deborah-britzman-earns-hans-w-loewald-memorial-award/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=October 28, 2019 |date=November 17, 2015}}</ref>

In 2016, she was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Association for Teacher Education.<ref>{{cite web |title=Deborah Britzman awarded Lifetime Achievement Award |url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2016/05/30/professor-deborah-britzman-to-be-awarded-lifetime-achievement-award-for-contributions-to-research-in-teacher-education/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=October 28, 2019 |date=May 30, 2016}}</ref> The next year, she was named a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-Social Transformations.<ref>{{cite web |title=York University appoints seven new York Research Chairs |url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/04/06/york-university-appoints-seven-new-york-research-chairs/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=October 28, 2019 |date=April 6, 2017}}</ref> She was also recognized by York as a University Research Leader.<ref>{{cite web |title=York University's Research Leaders' Gala recognizes high-calibre, world-leading research |url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/04/04/york-universitys-research-leaders-gala-recognizes-high-caliber-world-leading-research/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.c |accessdate=October 28, 2019 |date=April 4, 2017}}</ref>

==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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/04/06/york-university-appoints-seven-new-york-research-chairs/|title=York University appoints seven new York Research Chairs|last=|first=|date=6 April 2017|website=York University|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408200538/http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2017/04/06/york-university-appoints-seven-new-york-research-chairs/|archive-date=2017-04-08|access-date=}}</ref> *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<ref name="ShacklockSmyth2002">{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Shacklock|author2=John Smyth|title=Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tr6PAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|date=1 November 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-71052-1|pages=125–}}</ref> *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<ref>Review: [http://www.edrev.info/reviews/rev61.htm "Britzman, Deborah P. (1998) Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927233632/http://www.edrev.info/reviews/rev61.htm |date=September 27, 2013 }}. Reviewed by Victoria I. Muñoz, Wells College, May 23, 1999</ref><ref name="Youdell2010">{{cite book|author=Deborah Youdell|title=School Trouble: Identity, Power and Politics in Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QH5dBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102|date=1 November 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-88418-4|pages=102–}}</ref>

== References ==

*Richards, C. (2011). Young People, Popular Culture and Education. Continuum International Publishing Group. P. 39

==External links== {{wikiquote}} *Deborah Britzman: Distinguished Research Professor, Psychoanalyst, York University: https://edu.yorku.ca/edu-profiles/index.php?mid=5821

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