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Coverage of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating
Ideas of the century: Scepticism
The Philosophers' Magazine,
16 August 2010
Frank Furedi on an old idea that’s more important than ever.
Parenting isn’t a bunch of skills that can be taught
spiked,
10 August 2010
Frank Field’s proposal to have a GCSE in parenting would denigrate both what it means to be a parent and the purpose of education.
The crisis in education
Five Books,
13 July 2010
In this interview, Frank Furedi discusses five of the best books.
Predators in the classroom
Guardian,
16 April 2010
Our suspicious society has left teachers open to career-threatening false allegations of abuse.
Education: you can’t buy and sell intellectual capital
spiked,
16 March 2010
In this essay, Frank Furedi explains why the mighty mess Labour made of education won’t be fixed by privatisation or parental pressure.
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, set out five key ideas for rescuing education in the twenty-first 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.
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