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The government’s education policy is an ‘assault on childhood’,
says children's author Meg
Rosoff
Many pupils in the UK suffer
from mental health problems and believe
"nothing is more
important than exams", Rosoff warns
Award-winning children’s
author Meg Rosoff has attacked the government’s over-focus on exams,
claiming that teaching and learning has become “joyless”.
The author, who won the Astrid
Lindgren Memorial Award in Sweden last night,
described the UK’s
government’s approach to young people as an “assault on childhood”.
Speaking at the award
ceremony in Stockholm, Ms Rosoff told the audience that she has met
many children in the UK
who believe "that nothing is more important than exams,
that they must cram as much
information into their brains as possible, that they must be literate
and read books – but it
is OK to close libraries and do away with librarians".
"The government says that
children must not daydream or waste time or look out of the window. The
government says that art and music and books will not help children to be
successful –
in other words, to make lots
of money."
She added: "I meet these
children all the time. Sometimes they get great marks on their exams.
And sometimes they cut
themselves with razors, starve themselves, suffer depression and
anxiety."
The author's attack on the
government's approach to education follows widespread opposition
from parents, teachers
and unions to library closures across the UK
and tougher primary
assessments.
'Learning has become joyless'
While accepting the
internationally recognised £430,000 award for her literature, Ms
Rosoff added: "Teachers are not allowed to waste time either. They have
boxes to tick and forms to fill out. Perhaps that is why teachers in the UK are
resigning in record numbers
from what has become a
joyless profession.
"Learning has become
joyless as well, but students are not able to quit. Instead, they carry on,
trained through childhood not to daydream, not to use their imaginations, not
to play.
“In Britain we are
experiencing, quite literally, an assault on childhood."
The UK-based author,
known for her young adult novels How I Live Now
and Picture Me Gone, added
that she was “so honoured”
to be the recipient of the
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) for 2016 –
the world's
biggest award for children's and young adult literature.
Ms Rosoff, who beat off
competition from hundreds of entrants, added that she kept
"waiting for it to sink
in, to become normal, but it just keeps leaping up to astonish me".
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/governments-education-policy-assault-childhood-says-childrens-author
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