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Behaviour, behaviour, behaviour*

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Quick, Get Me Out of Here!

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The Elephant in the Room: Short term choices, long term consequences

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They wanted a swimming pool

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Visiting Paris Schools

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Democratic education: unschooling at school?

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Why we’ll keep on drawing cats

Art and Self-Direction Thanks to Dr. Naomi Fisher for this guest post, which instantly rang…

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Behaviour, behaviour, behaviour*

*With thanks to Michael Rosen for the inspiration I got in an argument recently. It…

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School with no lessons

This article was first published in the Green Parent magazine, issue no: 85 date: October/November…

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Canaries

We need to stop telling kids they have something wrong with them if they don’t…

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What about autism?

There have always been kids who don’t fit the mainstream school system.  Over the years,…

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Quick, Get Me Out of Here!

Are you nurturing anxiety rather than nurturing your child? Last week I was walking with…

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Exam Results

Another year, another set of GCSE results. More photos of triumphant and disappointed teenagers –…

Read More

The Elephant in the Room: Short term choices, long term consequences

“I think I can safely say that we who believe in self-directed learning do so…

Read More

They wanted a swimming pool

This is the first in our series of articles for National Democracy Week 2018.  Naomi…

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But how will they learn to read?

When my son was less than 6 months old, we were given a cloth bag…

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Visiting Paris Schools

Schools with no lessons? No adult imposed curriculum or rules? Schools where children have an…

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Democratic education: unschooling at school?

August 2017, and my unschooled daughter and I arrived in a scruffy hall of residence…

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