Jul 15, 2020
Our lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it. We’d like to also say thank you to all our wonderful guests that have given us their time and shared their thoughts with us over the last few...
Jun 28, 2020
As alternative educational settings we often hear from parents of children struggling with the mainstream approach to learning. Children who need to move more than the school day allows for, find it hard to focus on work they aren’t interested in or simply learn in different ways than their peers. It’s not...
Jun 19, 2020
“Play is really the work of children, play is how they understand the world and how they become adults. The importance of play cannot be overstated” remarked Larry Welshon in last week’s episode about Democratic Education.
In Lockdown our children have had more time to get bored and figure out how to spend...
Jun 12, 2020
If, like Alex O’Neill who we spoke to in our last episode, lockdown has caused to you to pause and reconsider what learning looks like for your children you might be wondering what your options are. We’ve talked a lot about home education in this series - as that’s what we’ve all kind of been thrown into - but...
Jun 4, 2020
Millions of children around the world will have had a completely different learning experience over the past 12 weeks. For many it will have been a difficult experience missing the company of their friends, unable to play outside and still others may have been living with the virus and helping to care for loved ones. ...