Learning Freely Network

So many discussions regarding categories. styles, methods and techniques of Home Education and curriculum vs no curriculum, etc. often miss the essential point of what learning is.

Last week, educational theorist and school reformer John Goodlad of the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle featured in the first of three guest articles on The Washington Post education blog, The Answer Sheet. This second article, "Straight Talk About Schools," began with this statement:

"Schools are not our major educators. Adding hours, days, and even [...]

From Peter Gray's 'Freedom to Learn' blog

Antibullying laws will work only when students make the laws.

Let's say you are 15 years old, or 13, or 11, and for some reason–a reason over which you have no control–you have been singled out by your schoolmates as an object for scorn and humiliation. Every day at school, [...]

From 'Open Education' blog

As a former administrator, I have had the good fortune to visit a significant number of classrooms over the years. Because I have been witness to bad or indifferent teaching, there has always been a special feeling of excitement during those times I was able to witness the talents of a true [...]

Going against the entrenched mainstream belief that to have a successful life you have to get higher education, can you define your idea of what success means?
Through my blog I have discovered that “success” is quite a touchy subject. In this day and age it is very hard, even as an unschooler, to…

From 'The Moderate Voice .com'

My five-year-old sons are among the approximately 1.5 million American children currently being educated at home. Rather than attend a traditional school five days per week, they spend their days doing projects, reading and being read to, learning to write through games, visiting museums and art galleries, and taking classes at [...]