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Coverage of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating
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.
Frank Furedi launches an excoriating attack on our education system and its failings
Observer,
15 November 2009
Review by Rafael Behr.
Older generation of bad faith
Weekend Australian,
7 November 2009
Education in the West is no longer working because it has become about the new rather than renewal. By Frank Furedi.
Tormented by the under fives….
Classroom London,
4 November 2009
Can children as young as 3 years old really cause chaos in the classroom? Are there really 3 year old bullies using violence in schools and intimidating teachers and other pupils?
Rethinking education – the new crisis of adult authority in the classroom
Battle of Ideas,
4 November 2009
Lecture: What are the consequences when teachers flounder and accommodate to the inclinations and feelings of children?
Whatever happened to adults?
Sunday Herald,
1 November 2009
Essay of the week: Children are winning the power struggle between generations. By Frank Furedi.
Why pedagogy is in peril
spiked,
30 October 2009
Frank Furedi talks to Jennie Bristow about the politicisation of education and the crisis of adult authority.
Give teachers authority or betray our children
London Evening Standard,
29 October 2009
As a society, we are obsessed with education. But we seem to have given up on the idea that the person who knows best in the classroom is the teacher.
The teachers who can do no right
The Times (London),
27 October 2009
A report claims that a third of teachers have been falsely accused of wrongdoing. It's time parents recognised their responsibilities. By Frank Furedi.
Teachers fight back against false claims of pupil assault
Observer,
25 October 2009
Poll by Association of Teachers and Lecturers reveals that quarter of school staff have faced unfounded accusations.
Terrorised by toddlers
Sunday Times,
25 October 2009
Schools now expel pupils as young as three. Are children so bad? No – it’s adults’ fault.
Make children embrace the boredom
TES,
23 October 2009
Forget gimmicks and 'motivational techniques' - it's time to resurrect the lost art of serious schooling. By Frank Furedi.
Motivational gimmicks ‘undermine intellectual content of lessons’
Daily Telegraph,
23 October 2009
Motivational 'fads and gimmicks' used to prevent children becoming bored in the classroom are undermining the intellectual content of lessons, an academic has warned.
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