One of the reasons for the current difficulties in educational discipline is the lack of understanding of the status and significance of educational discipline in the student agency development process. Starting from mirror theory, current educational discipline presents three problems: students’ loss of self in teachers’ cognitive mirrors, the absence of subjectivity in teachers’ domains, and the vanishing of students in teachers’ gaze. Therefore, teachers should reconstruct cognitive mirrors, coexist with students through dialogue, and establish a virtue-based principle of educational discipline.

Heng Zhou, Yi Ren. Research on Teacher Educational Discipline from the Perspective of Lacan’s Theory of the Mirror. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 2: 148-154. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070224.

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