Books by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes
This book discusses the recent attempts, within the last five or ten years, to take a ‘therapeutic’ approach to education. This approach was born out of the whole self-esteem movement in the USA, which is based around trying to make people feel better about themselves. Ecclestone and Hayes argue that as this approach has been introduced, the way children feel has become more important than what they learn.
Interviews where books by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes were recommended
The best books on The Crisis in Education, recommended by Frank Furedi
The sociology professor and blogger at spiked-online.com says when society is faced with problems like homophobia, healthy eating or integration, for example, then we try to
