Psychologist and educator Erica Burman presents Fanon and Education. The “child as method” (Morata editions), a unique book that discusses childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology and postcolonial studies, and analyzes the function and purpose of the child and childhood as a cultural motif and life condition personified through the work of Frantz Fanon. Alongside the author, the following contribute: José Luis Linaza, Jiménez-Arellano Choir y Julia Varela in moderation Fat Angel.

Inspired by innovative interpretations of Fanon and postcolonial cultural studies, this book offers fresh insights into transformative pedagogical practice. The text establishes essential links between the political and the pedagogical, as well as between distress, therapy, learning (both personal and political), and change. The author explores diverse educational and therapeutic practices through an interpretation of Fanon's texts structured around four categories associated with the child: the idiotic, the traumatogenic, the therapeutic, and the extemic.

The book presents the child as a method, as a novel analytical approach to interpreting geopolitics, demonstrating that childhood, education, and critical psychological studies are fundamental to theoretical innovation, methodology, and professional practice in all these areas. It proposes that resilience emerges as a commitment, since the most extreme form of neoliberalism offers the option of a return to liberal feminism. It is a vivid and devastating critique of the impact of neoliberalism on feminism, a topic on which it issues a much-needed warning.

Erica Burman, Professor at the Institute of Education in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Official Analyst for the Council of Psychotherapists in the UK, and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo and the Cibersomosaguas research group at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her publications also include Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2017) and Developments: Child, Image, Nation (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2021).