Free to Learn?

What is ‘freedom to learn’? Arguments on this point stretch back into history. For example, Alfred the Great of England (849–899)…

I have learnt much less from the curriculum … but much more from my home life … (Jesse, aged 14)

Over the last few months, I have lost count of the amount of times I have said or heard the phrase “we live in strange times.” This phrase has perhaps become a…

It’s Playtime

It’s okay to let our children play all day.

Crisis Education

A month ago, when the government announced that the schools were to be closed, I listened with a strange mix of feelings. It was…

Towards co-operative working in alternative education

Of horses and idleness in the city

It is early in the morning and I am standing in the middle of a field, watching two horses graze…