Dennis Hayes (professor)


Dennis Hayes is professor of education at the University of Derby in England. He is the founder and director of the campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom. AFAF was founded in late 2006, initially to promote its but has subsequently undertaken the defence of many academics who have been threatened with disciplinary action or censored for their beliefs or ideas. Hayes is an author of the best-selling and controversial book The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education. A defender of knowledge-based education he is an advocate of the teaching of Latin and Greek in British state schools.

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