Dr Richard House is, until 31 August 2012, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton; and from September, Senior Lecturer in Education (Early Childhood), University of Winchester. His books on education include editing Too Much, Too Soon? – Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood (Hawthorn Press, 2011) and Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos (Karnac, 2009; co-ed. Del Loewenthal). His therapy books include In, Against and Beyond Therapy (PCCS, 2010), and Therapy Beyond Modernity (Karnac, 2003), Richard is a founder-member of, and an active participant in, the Open EYE Campaign for open early education, Early Childhood Action, the Save Childhood Movement, the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and the Independent Practitioners Network. He contributes regularly to a range of professional education publications, and to the peer-reviewed and professional psychotherapy literature. A trained Steiner Kindergarten and class teacher and education campaigner, he organised the three Daily Telegraph Open Letters on the state of modern childhood in 2006, 2007 (both with Sue Palmer) and in 2011. Richard is Co-Editor of the journal Self and Society: International Journal for Humanistic Psychology, Associate Editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International, and Theory Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Particular current interests include: early development and learning; the ‘audit culture’ and ‘toxic childhood’; the psychodynamics of learning and teaching; play and pedagogy; and post-structuralist/postmodern approaches to learning and research. |
Editor, Too Much, Too Soon? – Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood (Hawthorn Press, 2011)
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