Children must learn it’s not all about them [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 23 March 2010
A colleague’s eight-year-old daughter is doing a project at school called “All about me”. It’s the second time in her school career that she’s done a project on herself and she has already run out of baby photographs.
Promoted by a publicly funded industry of consultants, organisations, charities and academics, “All about me” is becoming a central goal of education, claiming to help young people to express and control their own emotions and to understand those of others. Schools can choose from a growing array of courses and activities, such as “circle time”, which is increasingly not story-telling but a therapeutic ritual for exploring feelings and emotional responses. Others set up peer- mentoring and anti-bullying schemes to train older children in rudimentary counselling to support younger ones. Some send staff on expensive training courses on “neuro-linguistic programming”. The organisation Relate works in more than 10,000 schools to “deliver” courses in relationship skills.
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