Toxic Education: How Schools Are Damaging Young People's Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix Them

Chris Bonell

doi:10.46692/9781447375340

Toxic Education

How Schools Are Damaging Young People's Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix Them

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Chris Bonell, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781447375340
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447375340

Subjects:: Education, Education, History, Theory

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Young people's mental health is in crisis, with many - especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds - struggling academically and with the later transition to employment. This book provides a blueprint for a fundamental shift in how schools support young people.

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How Schools Are Damaging Young People's Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix Them

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

About the author
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

1 - Introduction: how schools can seriously damage young people’s health
pp 1-5

2 - Toxic experiences: what young people say about schools
pp 6-21

3 - Toxic trends and patterns: data on young people’s health
pp 22-32

4 - Toxic policy? Education policy and its consequences
pp 33-41

5 - Health interventions in schools as sticking plasters
pp 42-48

6 - The Learning Together intervention: effective school detox in England
pp 49-67

7 - International examples of effective school detox
pp 68-77

8 - What works, for whom and where
pp 78-86

9 - Detoxifying education policy
pp 87-95

10 - Conclusion: detoxifying education
pp 96-99

References
pp 100-121

Index
pp 122-126

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