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- Explores how education needs to be re-invented and be child-centred
- Profiles numerous global empirical examples of innovative, democratic and autonomous education
- Offers theoretical perspectives on education through an alternative lens
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“A courageous and carefully researched book teeming with novel insights and highly original sweeping syntheses. It deserves to be an integral part of the political debate on welfare, as we struggle to construct sustainable structures that can survive the demographic demands of the 21st century. It is also a model of clear writing that is easily accessible to the layman and the policymaker alike. I recommend it to readers in the confident expectation that they will think likewise.” (Andrew Sabisky, Adam Smith Blog, adamsmith.org, January, 2016)
“The central thesis of the book is that the benefits of a generous welfare state erode work ethics, and that the longer people live under welfarism, the more they depend on those benefits, and the more likely they are to cheat to obtain them. … This book deserves to be read. … it is worth buying and sending to your elected representative, with the key findings underlined.” (James Thompson, Psychological Comments, drjamesthomson.blogspot.co.uk, January, 2016)
'The Welfare Trait is electrifying energising and shocking. Dr Perkins, an expert in the neurobiology of personality, argues that a generous welfare state can proliferate employment-resistant personality characteristics. The scientific discharge of this new theory is sure to spark high voltage debate be prepared for a jolt!' Philip Corr, Professor of Psychology, City University, London, UK
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Book Title: The Welfare Trait
Book Subtitle: How State Benefits Affect Personality
Authors: Adam Perkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137555298
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55527-4Published: 11 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55528-1Published: 11 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55529-8Published: 26 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 201
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Policy, Personality and Social Psychology, Social Care, Child Well-being