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The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education Paperback – 27 Jun. 2008

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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.

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0415397014
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978-0415397018
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1st
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Routledge
Publication date

27 Jun. 2008
Language

English
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15.6 x 1.17 x 23.39 cm
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204 pages
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About the Author

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).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (27 Jun. 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415397014
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415397018
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.17 x 23.39 cm

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David Didau

Every teacher should read this book

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If I'd read this book when it was first published I might have hated it. But the more I've read and learned (and written) about education the more convinced I've become that this book has it right. Reading it 2016 it feels like coming home - familiar, reassuring. I can only imagine the shock waves it must have produced on publication.

The case study approach the author's take is compelling and, although their take is necessarily partial, the case they build is damning. Every teacher should read this book.

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Genuinely thought provoking - useful for students looking for 'alternative' arguments to develop better quality essay writing!

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Interesting concepts posed - however I didn't feel they were fully explained or exposed

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Work purchase - not for me.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2008

Pupils taught how to be happy, the front page of the Sunday Times (07/09/08) stares out at me. This American scheme backed by New Labour is to be introduced into our schools to, "immunise youngsters from getting the blues by educating them at a young age." We are also told that the programme will be shown on Tuesday at a government backed (no less) conference on "wellbeing".
We must combat this nonsense is the message in this excellent, incisive and groundbreaking book by Ecclestone and Hayes. It is a warning against the invidious creep of therapy into our education; inevitable they argue, as part of the UK therapy culture.
I agree that a dystopian modern world, where the credit crunch, sub-prime, Enron and junk bonds, failing banks and rising prices, is something to worry about. But to somehow go from this, to argue that the solution to all ills, is to increase therapy across the board in education, is crazy in the extreme. Committing as it does, the category error of getting an 'ought' from an 'is'. It is 'commonsense,' that it's all therapy now, 'innit', is the increasingly accepted chant by those that should know better.
This debate has a longish history going back through Furedi, Nolan, Lasch and beyond. The uniqueness of this book is that it encompasses the therapeutic turn in all aspects of UK education, and related fields of culture and work. This book conjures up my own personal demons. In my current research into the initial diagnosis of diabetes, the psychology component is scattered throughout with, 'well being' questionnaires, 'quality of life' statements, 'interventionist techniques' all aiming to make things better.
The book gives the first frisson of excitement since my time at the London Institute of Education with Michael Young, Basil Bernstein et al. Their look into the social construction of knowledge may have taken a wrong turn at times, but I never doubted that something new and interesting was taking place.
So, it is with this book! In eight closely argued chapters, well supported by research, they argue that therapeutic education is profoundly dangerous with the argument "...that populist orthodoxies reflect and reinforce the concept of a 'diminished self', 'low esteem' and the making of 'emotionally fragile people'. Apart from pursuing their own take on the debate, chapter eight gives a useful summary of their critics' views.
This is an important book appealing to all interested in the state of education, and why the mantra of 'education. education, education' isn't working. Simply using a soft notion of therapy to plaster over glaring gaps in funding and resources, is not the answer and is an insult to the intelligence.
If you buy only one serious book this year, this is the one to get.

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sj

Controversial!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2014

Some very good points, well thought out and clearly structured. Very helpful book that really made me think, have recommended it to other student teachers and would also recommend to teachers.

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