Issue No.
28
October 2009
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Pedagogy in peril
A crisis of adult authority is killing education.
by Jennie Bristow
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 Tim Black
At a time when those people formally known, and often feared, as ‘headmasters’ have been relabelled ‘lead learners’, and when schoolchildren are encouraged to interview their own teachers to see if they have the right attitude and skills, it is clear that education is being turned on its head. Formerly the arena in which adults passed on their knowledge to children, it is now more like a conversation between ‘equals’ about values and behaviour. In an interview about his new book Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating, Frank Furedi tells this month’s spiked review of books that the engine to the education crisis is the demise of adult authority. In a world where adults’ wisdom and moral fitness are continually called into question, education becomes a near-impossible task. We also have Sean Collins on the economic relationship between America and China, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick on the McCarthyism of anti-smoking, Tim Black on capitalism’s ‘morbid age’, and much more. Enjoy! [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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