RSA: schools link with local community
RSA wants to link schools with their local community. This is of course an ethos and approach which home educated families very much live “Relationships...
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Learning maths through life
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Conventional schooling makes learning mathematics an entirely cerebral exercise unrelated to the real world, but it really doesn’t have to be Maths can be learnt...
Is it right to keep forcing truanting children back into school?
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Truancy and coercive consent: is there an alternative? Karen McIntyre‐Bhatty (2008) Educational Review The paper challenges the rhetoric around truancy, the presumption that school is the best...
Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future
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Article on the type of education we need for the present day published on the Foundation for Economic Education This piece gives an overview of...
HundrED: 100 ideas to make school better
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Schools should be better. Here’s hundreds of ways to make that happen HundrED is an organisation which shares inspiring innovations happening in schools. There’s 100...
Let kids get cyber skills playing and exploring online
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Former head of GCHQ: Children learn about the virtual world via play and exploration, and attempts to limit access is damaging this important learning The...
A Review of Child Protection – recommendations (Munro 2011)
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In 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove commissioned Professor Eileen Munro to review child protection in England. The following passages are from...
Concerns around home education rooted in class and ethnicity (Birmingham Uni)
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There are different narratives around home education for different families Concerns around home education are rooted in racism and perceptions of class says Professor Kalwant...
Dylan, 13, home ed for one year
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Lesley, Dylan’s mum, allowed him to leave school a year ago and has been home educating him. He had been told he was ‘slow’ but...
Learn through video: the Khan Academy
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Free online videos from the Khan Academy can be a valuable tool for students The Khan Academy provides free online tutorials. There are over 42...