Category: Adam Fletcher
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My Review of “Eliminating Corporal Punishment”
Eliminating Corporal Punishment: The Way Forward To Constructive Child Discipline was edited by Joan Durrant. This is my review for The Freechild Project website. Spanking, slapping, smacking, pulling ears, pinching, shaking… Hitting with rulers, belts, wooden spoons, extension cords, slippers, hairbrushes, pins, sticks, whips, rubber hoses, flyswatters, wire hangers, stones, bats, canes, or paddles… Forcing a child […]
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My Review of “The Abandoned Generation”
The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear was written by Henry Giroux. This is my review for The Freechild Project. The most important contribution to our collective work for social change by and with young people in recent years is not being talked about. Perhaps because it is the most dangerous. Truth is told, […]
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Why Youth Can’t Wait
I look at the people around me and see the prisons and traps we’re all stuck in. From an early age we are taught and trained shown that we should stay put, sit still, hold on, walk (don’t run), and be quiet. Whatever you do, be quiet. So we do. We go to polite schools […]
Adam F.C. Fletcher 