This book employs Lacanian psychoanalysis to develop new ways of understanding educational
domains. It analyses events practices and policies that occur in school classrooms teacher
education and higher-degree studies including educational research. It provides an accessible
introduction description and analysis of those aspects of Lacan's work concerned with language
identity and subjectivity directly relevant to the field of education. Regulative discourses
and practices in education are a central concern and the authors demonstrate how Lacanian
theory empowers our understanding of how such discourses are instrumental in forming teacher
and researcher identities. The book also shows how regulatory practices and discourses are
relevant to research methodologies that arise in the field of action research in education.
