Helene Guldberg is co-founder and director of the online publication spiked, associate lecturer in child development at the Open University and teacher at the US study abroad centres, CAPA and IES.
Helene is author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear, published by Routledge in January 2009.
‘This is a powerful and passionate book that explains why so much of what we say about children is so wrong.‘
Professor Frank Furedi, author of Paranoid Parenting
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Recent articles
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Let the Children Play
Adults’ fears and mistrust are the reason our youngsters can no longer enjoy free-roaming summer holidays, says Helene Guldberg in The Independent
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Bullying the public
The latest NSPCC/ChildLine initiative on bullied children presents both adults and kids as toxic beings.
Friday 26 June 2009
Restating the case for human uniqueness
A brilliant new book cuts through all the media-oriented research about ‘clever chimps’ using tools, doing maths and feeling human emotions, and reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing remotely human about primates.