Learning in the Time of Corona

Why I won’t send my daughter back to school

My daughter is in year 2, so outside of the government’s target groups to be going…

Reopening schools won’t fix our broken society

Who your child is now, is enough.

Why we need to stop focusing on who they will be.

Towards co-operative working in alternative education

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…

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)…

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…

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…