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Parents and Pedagogy
Helicopters and Expert Advice
From: Degrees of Failure
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Twentieth-century child-rearing practices in North America have been heavily manipulated by the state and the private sector toward a domestication that suits institutional life. The tense relationship between parents and children, mediated more than ever before by technological gadgets, seriously affects the psychological and physical environment in which students try to learn.
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Randle W. Nelsen has taught sociology in Canada and the United States for fifty years. He has written extensively on higher education, professionalism and bureaucratic work, and popular culture. He is the author of Fun & Games & Higher Education: The Lonely Crowd Revisited and Life of the Party: A Study in Sociability, Community, and Social Inequality.
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Randle W. Nelsen
