
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
How Teaching is Becoming Therapy
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-0-415-39701-8 (ISBN)
Description
The silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the education system and into the workplace demands a book that serves as a wake up call to everyone. Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes' controversial and compelling book uses a wealth of examples across the education system, from primary schools to university, and the workplace to show how therapeutic education is turning children, young people and adults into anxious and self-preoccupied individuals rather than aspiring, optimistic and resilient learners who want to know everything about the world.
The chapters address a variety of thought-provoking themes, including
how therapeutic ideas from popular culture dominate social thought and social policies and offer a diminished view of human potential
how schools undermine parental confidence and authority by fostering dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities based on disclosing emotions to others
how higher education has adopted therapeutic forms of teacher training because many academics have lost faith in the pursuit of knowledge
how such developments are propelled by a deluge of political initiatives in areas such as emotional literacy, emotional well-being and the 'soft outcomes' of learning
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education is eye-opening reading for every teacher, student teacher and parent who retains any belief in the power of knowledge to transform people's lives. Its insistent call for a serious public debate about the emotional state of education should also be at the forefront of the minds of every agent of change in society... from parent to policy maker.
The chapters address a variety of thought-provoking themes, including
how therapeutic ideas from popular culture dominate social thought and social policies and offer a diminished view of human potential
how schools undermine parental confidence and authority by fostering dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities based on disclosing emotions to others
how higher education has adopted therapeutic forms of teacher training because many academics have lost faith in the pursuit of knowledge
how such developments are propelled by a deluge of political initiatives in areas such as emotional literacy, emotional well-being and the 'soft outcomes' of learning
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education is eye-opening reading for every teacher, student teacher and parent who retains any belief in the power of knowledge to transform people's lives. Its insistent call for a serious public debate about the emotional state of education should also be at the forefront of the minds of every agent of change in society... from parent to policy maker.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-39701-8 (9780415397018)
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Kathryn Ecclestone | Dennis Hayes
The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education
How Teaching is Becoming Therapy
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06/2008
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Kathryn Ecclestone is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at Oxford Brookes University. She has written two best selling books on assessment, and is a member of the Assessment Reform Group and the editorial board for the Journal of Further and Higher Education.
Dennis Hayes is Visiting Professor in the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. He is the editor and author of several books including The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education (2004).
Dennis Hayes is Visiting Professor in the Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. He is the editor and author of several books including The RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Debates in Education (2004).
Content
Foreward by Frank Furedi Preface: The rise of emotional problems 1 In an emotional state 2 The therapeutic primary school 3 The therapeutic secondary school 4 The therapeutic college 5 The therapeutic university 6 The therapeutic workplace 7 Explaining the emotional state 8 The therapeutic turn in education: a response to our critics Bibliography Index