The Therapy of Education

Walter Benjamin’s Conception of Experience: A Way of Thinking about Otherness in Educational Context

“…8. Standish (2007) points out the problem of narrative research that is blind or insufficiently alert to our otherness to ourselves. In the present paper, however, I want to consider not "our" otherness to ourselves, which might suggest that otherness is somehow inside us, but an otherness to ourselves that breaks open any sense of unity, because in Benjamin's sense otherness can be characterised as the unknown to us.…”

Mindfulness and the myth of mental illness: implications for theory and practice

“…MBCT/MBSR approaches are based on modifications of CBT and other behavioural approaches which have at times been-as Smeyers, Smith, and Standish (2007) put it in their examination of connections between therapy and educationassociated with 'doing things to people'. They go on to observe that 'many therapists in fact are concerned precisely to distinguish therapy as a relationship between autonomous human beings from therapy as a set of techniques' (Smeyers, Smith, and Standish 2007, 1-2).…”

The metaphor of therapy and its use in the learning of a workplace identity

“…The metaphor of workplace learning as edifying therapy The notion of formal learning in an educational workplace as therapy was substantially explored by Smeyers, Smith, and Standish (2007) Ecclestone and Hayes (2009), and in higher education by Barnett (2011). The premise of each is that, where education is perceived as a process of self-edification rather than one of instrumental skills acquisition, the similarity with psychotherapy becomes all too evident and problematic.…”