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The common core curriculum in the USA is fiercely criticised.
Jerry Mintz
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REEVO, AER0 and the Phoenix Education Trust are all preparing maps of sites of alternative or democratic education...
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Curriculum Cop returns to the Lib Ed pages with a report on a new Govian free school
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A film about the ways schools prevent authentic education, with English subtitles.
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Kaia and Megan Bellamy, Tom Wright and Simone Turner
Four students tell of their experiences at the 2013 IDEC in Colorado.
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The launch of the Save Childhood movement, and values in early education.
Alisdhair Mussell
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The manifesto from a book on how to give your children places to play outside.
Mike Lanza
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A charity offering weekly play therapy sessions at primary schools in London
Ros Kane
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Alex Bloom: part 3 : Freedom in Community
Michael Fielding
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An account of why a newly trained teacher decided to leave the profession
David Hansen
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Alex Bloom: Introduction and Part 1 Freedom From Michael Fielding
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School of thought: The New Education Between the Wars:
a forthcoming film
Joanna Grudzinksa
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We master what we practise. So what do we want to practise?
Trevanion Grenfell
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In his book, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, Jacques Rancière sets out the radical theory that is the core of most of his later work.
Stefan Szczelkun
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Only a small number can imagine a different way to do things.
Richard Fransham
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As an undiagnosed autistic, Maurice Frank suffered severely at school from being classified as gifted and talented.
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Human Scale Education, which has been running since 1985, has had a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Trust. How are they going to use it?
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Some extracts from a blog, describing extraordinary official attitudes.
Jenny Collins
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Lib Ed's range of activity has been declining over the last few years, indicating a need for new blood.
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A pupil at a free school confronts parental anxiety.
Krischan Müller
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Local youth was incurring the age-old ire of its despairing elders in a small Derbyshire town.
Bryn Purdy
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The Student Voice Team from the Phoenix Education Trust describe their new projects.
The Student Voice Team
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An ex-pupil from a free school in Vienna describes a life of extraordinarily varied learning.
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Children need to play out of doors, so why not sometimes close your street to cars?
A film by Alice Ferguson and Amy Rose
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A report on IDEC 2012 in Puerto Rico, and an announcement about EUDEC 2012, to be held in Freiburg at the end of July.
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Stories of some of Bryn Purdy’s ex-pupils which demonstrate the success of his approach.
Bryn Purdy
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Tamariki is a democratic school funded by the government. This teachers’ guide expresses their philosophy in a way acceptable to bureaucrats.
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It is to be expected that education in China today should be centrally controlled and authoritarian. Cireena Simcox has experience to prove it.
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A letter announcing that the Indian organisation, Concerned for Working Children, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Annie Quick is sure that she is not the only person whose memories of citizenship classes are less than inspiring.
Annie Quick
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People say Summerhill methods will only work with children from the wealthy, liberal middle class. Bryn Purdy’s experience proves the opposite.
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An interesting new school has been started by Russian immigrants in Sinai, Egypt
Katerina Perkhova
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The Government puts teachers and young people into boxes. How can we escape?
Tania Hales-Richardson
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An article from the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the 2011 IDEC, hosted by Sands School, in Devon.
Simone Kosog
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A new website, which instead of praising libertarian education, goes into the attack.
David Gribble
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A psychotherapist tries rewarding bad behaviour to cure it.
Renee Sadler
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Anyone who has passed through the regular graduations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it ...
William Hazlitt
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Some reflections after a year of working with education in freedom. Land of Treasure is a free nursery school in Łodz, Poland.
Ola Matyska