Jane Sandeman

Jane is a Battle of Ideas Committee member and convenor of the Academy of Ideas Parents Forum. This was founded in October 2006 and looks at why the family has become such a focus in contemporary society and what consequences that has.

Jane wrote the foreword to Standing Up to Supernanny which was shaped by the Parenting Strand hosted at the Battle of Ideas

Related Sessions
Saturday 29 October 2011, 3.30pm Café
Are we turning our children into food faddists?
Sunday 30 October 2011, 1.45pm Lecture Theatre 2
Tiger mothers: the great parenting row
Sunday 30 October 2011, 5.30pm Café
Who is the greatest ever Olympian? Balloon debate

Publications

Standing Up to Supernanny [foreword] (Societas, 2009)

Optimism versus Pessimism

"Nine out of ten these debates hit the right balance between heated argument and useful exchange between people who wouldn't usually be talking to each other. An extremely stimulating environment."
Tim Parks, novelist, essayist and translator

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