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Recent research into education based on children's rights in state schools in Hampshire, England
Derry Hannam
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The Ragged University is a new and rapidly growing initiative in the UK.
Alex Dunedin
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Pédagogie Nomade is a democratically run school in Belgium that is under threat.
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A brief account of the work already done by Change the Future, a new attempt to make the voice of young people heard.
Luke Flegg
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An article originally published in the Sudbury Valley School Journal, revealing surprising similarities between Sudbury Valley and Pixar.
Mark Bell
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A description of a visit to William Booth by David Gribble, and a brief summary of the contested report by Ofsted in January 2011.
David Gribble
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Dhruba Ghimire is workiing to improve the lives of Nepali women through education.
Echo Zang
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A comment on the case of the teacher who attacked a pupil with a dumbbell
David Gribble
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An ex-student from Sands School describes the development of democracy in another school.
Rachel Roberts
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This article about the Bulger case was originally published in Issue 12 of The Journal of Personalised Education Now.
Christopher Shute
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A sample article from Turning Points, a book published earlier this year in the USA, which is an anthology of responses to four specific questions.
Gustavo Esteva
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A letter in support of an application to found a democratic school in Croatia.
Derry Hannam
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A reaction to the article 'Die, Die, Die' and the 'Teachers' Advice' article in the January posting.
James Bar Bowen
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Arvind Gupta is an Indian scientist who has developed fascinating ways of teaching science using only the cheapest materials and household rubbish.
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A personal story of recovery after a period of despair as a student in a conventional school.
Rachel Roberts
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An account of the achievements and disappointments of Coole Schule, the Austrian movement for student involvement in school decision-making.
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The Lycée Autogéré de Paris is a self-governing state school that has been running since 1982.
Heike Freire
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A new definition of a loosely defined term.
Ian Cunningham
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Harry Potter is defended against the critics who accept The Lord of the Rings and His Dark Materials as serious literature.
David Gribble
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Is the government review of home education another attempt to control or silence educational diversity?
Derry Hannam
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Some entries for the English Secondary Students' Association competition for videos suggesting improvements to schools.
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The International Democratic Education Conference planned for Korea met an unexpected problem.
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The story of a project for helping unemployed young people to learn circus skills.
Alice Finbow
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A response to the extract from Siegfried Bernfeld’s article on the Baumgarten Children’s Home, posted on this site in September 2008.
Robert Hamm
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Extracts from a book by David Mearns and Brian Thorne on Carl Rogers' approach to counselling, rewritten to illustrate an approach to education.
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Edge Learner Forums aim to promote vocational qualifications and bring them up to an equal status with academic learning. In fact they do much more.
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An account of a visit to Butterflies, the organisation for street and working children in New Delhi.
Jerry Mintz
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Amukta Mahapatra describes Neel Bagh, founded by David Horsburgh in 1972, the inspiration for many prominent Indian educators.
Amukta Mahapatra
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Alan was one of the victims of the raising of the school-leaving age in 1972. His experience has contemporary relevance.
Alan Nettleton
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An account of what must be the most widespread liberalisation of education anywhere in the world.
Amukta Mahapatra
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A new student teacher's unexpected response to the demand for an essay.
Lucy Golston
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Positive and negative reactions to the new English Education and Skills Bill
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Inspiring extracts from the leaflets published by William Booth Nursery and Infant School in Nottingham
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Nigel Wright responds to Jenny Auster's article published on this site in May last year, and Jenny Auster replies.
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The Kinderheim Baumgarten was an innovative Jewish children's home set up in Vienna after the first world war.
Siegfried Bernfeld.
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Leonard Turton
An address to The first EUDEC (European Democratic Education Conference) which was held at the University of Leipzig in 2008.
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The Indian organisation, Shikshantar, runs a campaign against academic qualifications. They have published many relevant stories.
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Akira Potter has been a pupil at two free schools in Japan, and at Summerhill. He describes his experiences.
Akira Potter
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A response to Peter Higginson's article
James Bar Bowen
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An extract from the NGO alternative report on the UK implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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The speech delivered by Danielle Souness, of Room 13, at the Artworks Conference in the Tate Modern, when she was twelve years old.
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An ex-pupil tells of her own experiences at the school and describes the effect it had on her life.
Jenny Auster
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Coole Schule, the Austrian association of school students, gives up on politics.