Stuart Waiton

How not to get freaked out with drugs from TES 27/02/09
Despite the proclamation of the Know the Score drugs pamphlet, What Every Parent Should Know, that it is about telling us parents the “facts” and advising us not to use “scare tactics”, the more I read it the more it reminds me of Corporal Jones from Dad’s Army, writes Stuart Waiton.

Relationships by numbers from TES 24/04/09
There is much discussion today about the problem of relationships between people - in the home, on the street, and indeed between teachers and pupils. It is often couched in terms of anti-social behaviour, but there may be a bigger problem: the "anti-socialisation" of young people., writes Stuart Waiton.

A dark side to the mantra from TES 27/03/09
Pick up a policy document about any social problem and the new development will be something to do with "early intervention", writes Stuart Waiton.

The shame of new-age politics from TES 27/02/09
Discussing the issue of Alfie, the "shock-horror" father aged 13, the Times columnist David Aaronovitch noted that he is "a child whose privacy has been violated and whose welfare we simply don't care about", writes Stuart Waiton.

Victim TV is such thin gruel from TES 30/01/09
The BBC's Panorama prides itself on being the world's longest-running "investigative" television programme. Unfortunately, as the screening of Kids Behaving Badly earlier this month proves, there is nothing investigative about this programme today, writes Stuart Waiton.

Teachers or managers of emotions? from TES 07/11/08
I have explored the loss of meaning in education or, perhaps more accurately, the loss of meaning of education, says Stuart Waiton. A new book by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, explores one of the major trends that has accompanied this development and encouraged it.

Going green should not cost respect from TES 26/09/08
It is particularly strange that it is teachers teaching children to mock and chastise adults for their lazy selfishness - the adult/child role of educator being fundamentally turned on its head.

Educate or manipulate? from TES 29/08/08
The result, for Friedenberg, was that the knowledge and learning of the teacher was lost, while the space needed for the development of the adolescent’s ‘self’ was undermined.

Politics not society is broken from TES 25/07/08
The latest panic about knife crime is interesting to observe, as we move from the occasional news story to saturation coverage - front page protestations by newspapers, police pronouncements that knife crime is now more of a problem than terrorism, political proposals and counter proposals.

Getting drunk not unlawful from TES 27/06/08
Whoever is in power in Scotland, be it Labour or the SNP, and whoever wins an election in England, be it Red Ken or Blue Boris, the illiberal obsessive interference in everyday life churns ever onwards.

Debasement of sexual curiosity is the problem from TES 30/05/08
A BBC documentary, Am I Normal?, explored the changing nature of modern sexual behaviour and raised the question of the sexualisation of childhood A BBC documentary,

Shock, horror drives away softly, softly from TES 25/04/08
Looking up some traffic safety advertisements on YouTube, I was glad to see that I was not the only person who has come to find some of these distasteful, states Stuart Waiton.

The annoying buzz that is teenagers from TES 29/02/08
When I was invited onto a radio debate programme to discuss the new Mosquito - a device that gives off a high-pitched noise to disperse young people - I thought someone was having a laugh, says Stuart Waiton.

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