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The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayesâ classic text 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.

Remaining extremely topical, the chapters illuminate the powerful effects of therapeutic education, including:

  • How therapeutic learning is taking shape, now and in the future

  • How therapeutic ideas from popular culture have come to govern social thought and policies

  • How the fostering of dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities that

    Table of Contents

    Foreword; Preface; 1. In an emotional state; 2. The therapeutic primary school; 3. The therapeutic secondary school; 4. The therapeutic further education 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

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780367001667, 978-0367001667
      ISBN10: 0367001667
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      Educational strategies and policy Higher education, tertiary education

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education confronts the silent ascendancy of a therapeutic ethos across the educational system and into the workplace. Controversial and compelling, Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayesâ classic text 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.

      Remaining extremely topical, the chapters illuminate the powerful effects of therapeutic education, including:

      • How therapeutic learning is taking shape, now and in the future

      • How therapeutic ideas from popular culture have come to govern social thought and policies

      • How the fostering of dependence and compulsory participation in therapeutic activities that

        Table of Contents

        Foreword; Preface; 1. In an emotional state; 2. The therapeutic primary school; 3. The therapeutic secondary school; 4. The therapeutic further education 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

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