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Do Schools Kill Creativity? By Ortal Green
Education shapes our children’s future. But does our current education system provide our children with the learning environment they need to thrive? Unfortunately, our education […]
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Punishment, by Sean Bellamy
”When people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” Albert Einstein There was a […]
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The Side Effects of School: A Crisis in Mental Health Can’t Be Solved Through Therapy, by Dr Naomi Fisher
We’re facing a crisis in young people’s mental health. Every day I get emails from several parents, asking if I can help their children. They […]
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Rebooting Public Education – Part 1, by Richard Fransham
Introduction This essay is for people who steadfastly believe that healthy democracies are dependent upon public education being everybody’s first choice. It is written for […]
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A New Educational Paradigm for the 21st century, by Dr Ian Cunningham
Just a week before writing this piece, the CEO of a major company and I were discussing what the educational world needs to provide for […]
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Rewilding and Deschooling: a dialogue between Max Hope and Sophie Christophy
Authors: Max Hope & Sophie Christophy Max Hope, Director of Rewilding Education and advocate of freedom is passionate about rewilding and is excited about how concepts of […]
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Play, by Sean Bellamy
The desire to play is fundamental to the human condition and is impossible to suppress. Even in the most challenging situations, it will find a way […]
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Educational Rights (for Dummies!), by Katy Zago
How can we recover respect for human rights in education? There’s a reason for the ambiguity of my title. Too many people seem to ignore, […]
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Let’s Journey the Wilderness Together, by Dr Jo Sweetland
Watching our oldest child’s interest in learning slowly disappear and their curiosity and creativity dwindle became the motivator to us choosing to take all three […]
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Response to UNESCO’s ‘Education in a Post-Covid World’ Report
In UNESCO’s Progress Update on the Futures of Education, published in March 2021, UNESCO denied the value of Self-Directed Education and autonomous learning, despite much significant scientific evidence […]
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Democratic Empowerment: How do Students Feel About Their Student Council? By Hope Wilder
What Students Say Matters Most schools do not look like a democratic society at all. Imagine a school where democracy is lived on a daily […]
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Real World Learning: School 21 and XP
Here is a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), commissioned by the Edge Foundation (published June 2019), which presents the findings of […]
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Journal of Pedagogy: Home-Based Education
Volume 12 (2021): Issue 1 (June 2021), Special Issue: Home-Based Education Volume 12 of the Journal of Pedagogy ran a special on home education. It […]
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Evidence Base for Self-Directed Education
By Rose Arnold, Suitable-Education.uk, first published October 2021 “Self-directed education is a pedagogy grounded in biology, anthropology, cognitive science, psychology and child development. It is not claimed […]
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The Student Experience of Self Managed Learning (SML): Evidence From Research
By Nicola Sankey, March 2008 (with Introduction by Dr. Graham Dawes) [At the time what is now Self Managed Learning College was Called ‘South Downs […]
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Home Education Trends, Preliminary Report
By Wendy Charles-Warner, EducationOtherwise.org December 2020 This report examines trends in numbers of home educating families in England. The data was obtained by sending freedom […]
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Home-Education: Aims, Practices and Outcomes
By Paula Rothermel, University of Durham, 2002 Abstract This research explores the aims and practices of home-educating families from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. The methodology involves […]
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Preventing school exclusion: a case study of a primary aged autistic child with ADHD and a PDA profile
By Catrina Lyle and Heather Leatherland Catrina Lyle is an advisory teacher within the Communication and Interaction team and Heather Leatherland is a mainstream primary […]
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A Summary of Research on Self Managed Learning
The material in this document is just a small snapshot of the extensive evaluations carried out on Self Managed Learning with young people. It includes […]
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Learning from the COVID-19 home-schooling experience: Listening to pupils, parents/carers and teachers
A report by Mari-Ana Jones (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Sara Bubb (University College London Institute of Education): “In Spring 2020, schools in […]
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Your Invitation to Our Free Online Event
From 18-25th November 2024, in collaboration with Limitless, we are holding the INSPIRE Education Summit to envisage (and help create!) a new paradigm of education. […]
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Five Top Tips to Set Up a School or Learning Community
Inspiration and guidance to pave the way for a new paradigm of education! We are delighted to announce that we have a new resource for […]
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Start-Up Schools & Learning Communities – Webinars to Order
We are delighted to announce that our webinars for start-up schools and learning communities are now available to order. We recently teamed up with Limitless to offer two […]
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Webinars for Start-Up Schools & Learning Communities
Are you thinking about setting up your own school or learning community? Or perhaps you’ve been running for a while but you’re still exploring different […]
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Learn How to Set Up a School
If you dream of setting up your own school, to create something outside of the conventional, authoritarian education system, this is your chance to ask […]
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Learn How to Set Up a Learning Community
Announcing a New Collaboration… Limitless podcast host, Alex O’Neill and Progressive Education founder, Jo Symes have launched a webinar series for learning community start-ups. This […]
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Happy New Year!
Wishing you the best for a happy 2023. May this new year bring much inspiration to us all for reimagining education. 2022 was an exciting […]
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Progressive Education Events Line Up
June 15th, 11am BST – How can educators prepare students for adult life? Live webinar in the Progressive Education Group:- Ortal Green will share with […]
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Announcing a series of 5 FREE events by Progressive Education and Omnis Education
We are delighted to be collaborating with Omnis Education to bring you a series of five live webinars in our Progressive Education Group on Facebook. […]
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Live Events in the Progressive Education Group
We are excited to announce the launch of Progressive Education Facebook Lives which will be taking place in our Progressive Education Group on Facebook. These […]
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