Description
Product ID: | 9780141986302 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Coddling of the American Mind |
Subtitle: | How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure |
Authors: | Author: Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Social, group or collective psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, Universities |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The New York Times bestsellerFinancial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?In this book, free speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigate a new cultural phenomenon of "safetyism", beginning on American college campuses in 2014 and spreading throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking world. Looking at the consequences of paranoid parenting, the increase in anxiety and depression amongst students and the rise of new ideas about justice, Lukianoff and Haidt argue that well-intended but misguided attempts to protect young people are damaging their development and mental health, the functioning of educational systems and even democracy itself. The New York Times bestseller |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-06-06 |