Tag: Self Directed Education

Sep 29

What Does Self-Directed Learning Look Like in Action? By Esther Jones

The article below constitutes chapter three from Esther Jones’s book, ‘The Parent’s Handbook to Unschooling Yourself’… It can be extremely challenging to accompany your child’s learning at first because it looks so different from how you might have always considered learning to look. It’s quite a leap of faith to go from something orderly and […]

Feb 27

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 educational approaches and practices. This webinar series aims to guide you on your path to creating a progressive, holistic community where young people can thrive outside of the conventional, authoritarian […]

Oct 03

Is Self Directed Education Uneconomic? By Dr Ian Cunningham

Large scale education The main defence of traditional large-scale schooling is that it is necessary to bring together large groups of young people in these settings so that they can be effectively prepared for their future roles in society. The inconvenient evidence is that all the research on adults as to what makes them effective […]