Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear.
 
       
 

Rethinking education – the new crisis of adult authority in the classroom
Lecture: What are the consequences when teachers flounder and accommodate to the inclinations and feelings of children?

Listen to an audio recording of Frank Furedi’s opening lecture at the 2009 Battle of Ideas here

First published by Battle of Ideas, 4 November 2009