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.

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Coverage of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating

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.

Academic highlights decline in teacher authority
Your Thanet News, 10 October 2009
A leading academic has reignited the debate over the decline in behaviour standards in our schools.

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