In addition, a new theme, ‘Identities and Diversity: living together in the UK’ involved ‘appreciating that identities are complex’, ‘considering the 9 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION? connections between the UK, Europe and the rest of the world’ and ‘exploring the diverse national, regional, ethnic and religious cultures, groups and communities in the UK and the connections bet. [...] Meanwhile, the UK’s biggest teaching union published a report urging the decolonisation of ‘every subject and every stage of the school curriculum.’ It argues that every aspect of school life from the design of school classrooms to the structure of their daily routines have colonial roots.27 Subjects such as history and geography are used by schools and teachers to promote a distinct set of values. [...] Teachers as substitute parents Alongside instructing pupils in beliefs and values that may run counter to the views of their parents, teachers encroach upon what was once assumed to be the responsibility of the family in relation to the health and wellbeing of their children. [...] The impact of such decisions, played out over the course of many decades, has been to weaken the institution of the family and undermine the authority of parents. [...] Dewey writes that, ‘The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment.’107 Similarly, the philosopher Hannah Arendt described schools as ‘the institution that we interpose between the private domain of home and the world in order to make the transition to the world possible’; meaning that, to a child,.
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Table of Contents
- Who is responsible for raising the next generation 2
- Who is responsible for raising the next generation 4
- Contents 6
- Author 7
- Foreword 8
- Miriam Cates 11
- Former Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge 11
- Introduction 12
- Current tensions between home and school 15
- The politicisation of education 16
- Relationships and Sex Education 16
- Citizenship education 19
- Teachers as substitute parents 24
- Bad Therapy 24
- Parents abdicating responsibility 29
- Behaviour 30
- Attendance 32
- Toilet training 33
- The Guardian 34
- Conclusion 36
- How did we get here 37
- What is socialisation 38
- The weakening of the family 39
- Haven in a Heartless World 39
- From being a mum to doing parenting 41
- The Family in the Modern Age 41
- Parenting without authority 43
- Parenting Culture Studies 45
- Parents as a source of psychological harm 46
- Abolish the family 47
- Abolish the Family 48
- Conclusion 48
- A crisis point From education to socialisation 51
- Shift to child-centred education 55
- Democracy and Education Emile Emile Democracy 56
- Shift to a future orientation 58
- The crisis of socialisation 59
- Experts in morality 61
- Conclusion 63
- What should be done 64
- Final thoughts 67
- Notes 69
