Extensive research shows that babies are scientific and systematic in their playful exploration of the world Laura Schulz, associate MIT professor of brain and cognitive...
‘Play in children’s development, health and well being’ by Professor Jeffrey Goldstein of Utrecht University on how children learn and the importance of play to...
Government commissioned literature reviews concluded that there were numerous positive outcomes for children of self-regulated and independent learning The idea that children and young people...
What is self-determination anyway? You might have read (here for example) that home education is a very effective educational option because it fulfils the three...
Foreign languages are another incredibly important skill, especially for future jobs opportunities, which schools are failing to teach children French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Turkish,...
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra’s ideas about self-organised education are now known all over the world. In 2013 he was the winner of the TED Prize,...
Sugata Mitra is an educational researcher whose experiment of giving poor children in India access to a pc lead to understanding of how children can...
Another voice – that of CBI (Confederation of British Industry) President Paul Drechsler CBE – was added to those calling for education to mean more...