The subject will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to the ways language and subjectivity can be described
- Theoretical and philosophical examination of contemporary critical theories on language, subjectivity, power and knowledges.
- Historical and theoretical perspectives focusing on language and discourse, power and knowledges, critical thinking and praxis
- Critical Methodology: grounding in theoretical, epistemological and methodological principles which engage with subjectivity and praxis in research.
- Critical research methods: practice based inquiry into research and praxis
- Discourses in school education: draws upon subject member’s subjective experiences, discourse theory and research carried out in educational settings.
- Discourse in university and the workplace: development of previous topic which examines the interconnectedness between educational discourse and institutional discourse more widely
- Gendered power and language: draws upon post-structural feminist and queer standpoints to engage with fundamental issues in the way in which heterosexism, silencing, privilege, and gendered oppression function and are accomplished.
- Answering Back: examination of emancipatory disability research, activism and especially indigenous decolonising methodology, to consider challenges they pose to mainstream psychology and the role of language and discourse.
- Language of psychology: draws upon critical theory to examine the language and discourses of psychology itself to reflect on the nature, function and implications of assumptions and practices within psychology. |