Frank Furedi
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Frank Furedi is a Hungarian-Canadian sociologist and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 3 May 1947, Hungary; his family emigrated to Canada after 1956 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: BA in international relations, McGill University; MA in African politics, SOAS; PhD, University of Kent (1987) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Culture of Fear; Paranoid Parenting; Therapy Culture; Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?; Wasted (2009); On Tolerance (2011); Authority: A Sociological Introduction (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Adult responsibility is not a technical skill but a commitment to care about the future of the younger generations. (opens korrents.com)
“the exercise of responsibility by adults has little to do with technical skills but a commitment to assume the duty of care about the future of the younger generations”
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The word ‘adulting’ shows a culture that portrays adulthood as something no sensible person would want to embrace. (opens korrents.com)
“The invention of the word adulting is symptomatic of a culture that increasingly portrays the identity of an adult as one, that no sensible person would enthusiastically embrace.”
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Elitist commentators respond to the rise of democracy by trying to limit people’s right to influence public life. (opens korrents.com)
“The answer of elitist commentators to the rise of democracy is to try to limit people’s right to influence the direction and outcome of public life.”
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Adult responsibility is not a technical skill but a commitment to care about the future of the younger generations. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Bringing Knowledge Back In (opens rcmnd.app)
“In Bringing Knowledge Back In he makes a number of arguments for why education must be knowledge-based and confronts all the different attempts to devalue it.”
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The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education discusses the recent attempts, within the last five or ten years, to take a ‘therapeutic’ approach to education.”
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Left Back (opens rcmnd.app)
“What really comes across when you read Left Back, which is a history of American educational policy over the last hundred years, is that there has always been a certain amount of tension about what a school was for.”
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Bringing Knowledge Back In (opens rcmnd.app)