PASSONE, Eric Ferdinando Kanai. Education policy implementation failure: sympton and subject emergency. []. , 18, 1, pp.53-60. ISSN 1415-7128.

This article aims to interrogate the discourse about the "failure of educational policies" as a symptom, associated with the several types of discourse: the master's, the capitalism's, and the university's. All of them imply the actual presence of the unconscious in the social links established by educational policies nowadays. In addressing the educational failure as a symptom, we shift from the usual question "Why do educational policies fail?" to argue in favour of the hypothesis that failure itself mirrors the subject event in the discoursive structure. Our analysis showed the importance of including the subject of desire in the field of educational policies analysis.

: educational failure; educational policy; psychoanalysis; discourse theory.

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