Home education and students’ intrinsic motivation to learn
Dr G Riley 2016: The role of self-determination theory and cognitive evaluation theory in home education This paper by Dr Gina Riley, educational psychologist and...
Category : About Home Education
Leading head “I understand why home educators feel threatened”
by dan
Dr Bernard Trafford, head of Newcastle upon Tyne Royal Grammar School, a former chairman of Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference (HMC) [link to https://www.hmc.org.uk/ ] and...
Why Do Teachers Home Educate Their Own Children?
by dan
An article from Australian Unschooling blog Happiness is Here on the reasons that large numbers of teachers opt to home educate their own children ‘at...
How home educators move towards informal learning
by dan
Dr Alan Thomas, a leading UK academic on alternative and self-directed learning methods, explores how this transition happens, and what we can learn from this...
Why ‘deschooling’ is a valid part of education
by dan
Katherine Norman, a volunteer with Education Otherwise, writes on the misunderstanding around what it means to ‘deschool’. Trustees at Education Otherwise have approved her article....
Home Education UK (website)
by dan
Home Education UK is the UK’s premier source of free support since 2000. With over 200 pages providing support and information, for home educating parents...
Education Otherwise (organisation)
by dan
Education Otherwise (E.O.) is a membership-based charitable organisation that provides support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, and for those...
Teens – make yourselves an amazing education
by dan
Get a team of mentors, build your peer support, get work experience or perhaps start a small business Blake Boles has loads of advice and...
A socialist case against persecuting home educators (Medium)
by dan
Home educated writer and editor Rowan Fortune writes on why home education is a necessary lifeline and why it should be defended now. His piece...
Dear home educators
by dan
This website is not for you, as such. It isn’t about home education, nor how to do it. It is mostly missing the resources you...