When Pedagogies Pathologize: Theorizing and Critiquing the Therapeutic Turn in Education

• Main Author: Leviste, Enrique Niño P.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: education; inequality; intersectionality; neoliberalism; Psychologization; therapization; Education; Educational Sociology; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/145; https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2023.2203099
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This conceptual and theoretical paper seeks to analyze the dynamics and consequences of psychologization and therapization, key mechanisms of the therapeutic turn in education. In particular, it focuses, on how the pathologization of social problems occasions individualization and the production of...