DonÆt Touch!

This book explores the problems involved in ‘touching’ children in an educational environment. It uses real-life examples taken from groundbreaking research into the mentality of today’s risk culture, and highlights a maddening state of affairs in which ordinary well-meaning professionals feel they cannot offer even very young children basic levels of comforting or affection.

This fascinating and long-overdue book examines the ‘no-touch’ pandemic in early years settings, by use of extensive interviews with practitioners, parents and pupils, which:

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  About the Author, Heather Piper

  Heather Piper is Senior Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University.

  Ian Stronach is Research Professor of Education in the Education and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University.

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