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Coverage of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating
A depletionist view of history and humanity
spiked,
26 February 2010
David Willetts is one of today’s very few intellectual parliamentarians, which makes the fact that he has now written a neo-Malthusian, generation-bashing book all the more depressing.
Poor parenting ‘blamed for all’
BBC News Online,
16 February 2010
The politicisation of parenting is damaging family relations and education, an academic has warned. By Hannah Richardson, BBC News education and family reporter.
Rescuing adult authority in the twenty-first century
spiked,
15 February 2010
Parental determinism – the idea that parenting skills shape the future – makes Stalin’s economic determinism seem almost subtle by comparison.
Teachers get lessons in body language
Daily Telegraph,
13 February 2010
School teachers have been told to copy the gestures of their pupils in a bid to get children to like them. By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent.
Music for the masses: could it work here?
spiked,
28 January 2010
It would be brilliant if El Sistema, Venezuela’s social movement for classical music education, came to Britain. But there are obstacles.
A five-point programme for policy on education: how do policymakers, parents and teachers fit in?
University of Kent,
28 January 2010
At the British Library on 16 February, Professor Frank Furedi, author of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating, will set out five key ideas for rescuing education in the 21st century.
Review by Alan Ryan
Times Higher Education,
7 January 2010
Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, by Frank Furedi.
Review by John Green
Morning Star,
4 January 2010
Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, by Frank Furedi.
Rethinking education – the new crisis of adult authority in the classroom
Battle of Ideas,
22 December 2009
Audio recording of Frank Furedi's opening lecture at the Battle of Ideas on 31 October 2009.
Conversational gambit
Times Higher Education,
17 December 2009
'High-quality feedback' is an ongoing, interactive process. By Frank Furedi.
So many weird lessons, yet so little time for proper teaching
Observer,
29 November 2009
The government wants to warn children about domestic violence. It would be best to teach them to read and write. By Catherine Bennett.
The Forum
BBC World Service,
22 November 2009
Frank Furedi, Sabrina Maniscalco and Tahmima Anam on education, entanglement and epiphany.
Is there such a thing as school phobia?
BBC News Online,
19 November 2009
A school is being asked to apologise to the family of a boy it prosecuted for truancy. The boy was diagnosed as having "school phobia", but what exactly is that?
Themes or subjects: does it matter how children’s learning is structured?
The Guardian (Mortar Board),
19 November 2009
Prince Charles is wary of Ed Balls's curriculum reforms, says one of his advisers. Is he just being old-fashioned, or has he got a point? By Judy Friedberg.
“Gelukstraining op school is pure tijdverspilling”
Knack.be,
17 November 2009
Het belangrijkste wat scholen moeten doen is niet vakken geven en kennis in kinderhoofden proberen te proppen, maar jonge mensen 'vaardigheden' voor het leven aanreiken. Klinkt deze opvatting u bekend in de oren? De Britse socioloog Frank Furedi vindt ze funest en gevaarlijk.
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