An overview of home education (TES)
This 2003 article by Steven Hastings, published on TES, is a great overview of home education in England. Everything from who’s doing it, legal standing,...
Category : Home Education
Safer children? Safeguarding referrals within educational context
by dan
Research by Professor Devine and Parker investigated the child protection training provided in educational settings and found substantial problems, leading to a culture of over...
Home education and students’ intrinsic motivation to learn
by dan
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...
Being ‘known’ didn’t protect the children in the 7 SCRs
by dan
Gill Kilner, long term home educator, activist and blogger on the fallacious assertion that home educated children need to be known by professionals to be...
Rethinking child protection – serious reform needed (research by Devine and Parker)
by dan
There are serious problems with our child protection system, which now involves 5% of all families yearly. We accept this because we think it will...
Database State: over a quarter govt databases illegal and disproportionate
by dan
Database State, research by Anderson et al commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd, examines all of the public-sector databases and finds that a...
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...
Academics say: Monitoring would make self-directed education impossible
by dan
Self-directed home education does not need to look like school and attempts to make it the same would make it impossible The last time the...
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...