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De terugkeer van het gezag : waarom kinderen niets meer leren
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ISBN: 9789029086295 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam Meulenhoff

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Zowel ouders, leerkrachten als beleidsmakers maken zich zorgen over de vele problemen op scholen. Gebrek aan discipline, continue onderwijsvernieuwing en kinderen met leerproblemen zijn thema's die hoog op de politieke en maatschappelijke agenda staan. Maar de echte onderliggende problematiek komt nooit aan bod. Wat is de rol van volwassen gezag, van de politiek, waar gaat het echt om bij educatie? Onderwijs, zegt Frank Furedi, wordt gebruikt om andere maatschappelijke problemen op te lossen in plaats van kinderen te laten leren. Maatschappelijke en economische problemen worden veel te vaak op het overvolle bordje van onderwijs geschoven. Op heldere en intelligente wijze maakt de auteur het probleem van onderwijs duidelijk en breekt hij een lans voor datgene waar educatie werkelijk om draait: denken, kennen, reflecteren, observeren, ontwikkelen en beoordelen. Om scholen te laten bloeien moet de relatie tussen beleid en onderwijs, leerkracht en ouder, én ouder en kind veranderen


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On tolerance : a defence of moral independence.
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ISBN: 9781441120106 1441120106 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Continuum

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Outwardly, we live in an era that appears more open-minded, non-judgemental and tolerant than in any time in human history. The very term intolerant invokes moral condemnation. We are constantly reminded to understand the importance of respecting different cultures and diversities. In this pugnacious new book, Frank Furedi argues that despite the democratisation of public life and the expansion of freedom, society is dominated by a culture that not only tolerates but often encourages intolerance. Often the intolerance is directed at people who refuse to accept the conventional wisdom and who are stigmatised as 'deniers'. Frequently intolerance comes into its own in clashes over cultural values and lifestyles. People are condemned for the food they eat, how they parent and for wearing religious symbols in public.

Culture of fear : risk-taking and the morality of low expectations.
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ISBN: 0826459293 0826459307 9780826459299 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Continuum

Culture of fear revisited : risk-taking and the morality of low expectations.
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ISBN: 9780826493958 0826493947 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Continuum

Therapy culture : cultivating vulnerability in an uncertain age
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ISBN: 0415321603 041532159X Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Routledge,


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Wasted : why education isn't educating
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ISBN: 9781441122100 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Continuum

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Where have all the intellectuals gone? : including 'a reply to my critics'.
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ISBN: 0826490964 9780826490964 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Continuum

Where have all the intellectuals gone ? : confronting 21st century Philistinism.
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ISBN: 0826467695 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Continuum

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Authority : a sociological history
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ISBN: 1107460557 113902633X 1107007283 0521189284 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority - democratic consent, public opinion, science - yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.

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