Slippin’: Reflections on Participation at the Margins

The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation promoting and researching participation, inclusion and empowerment  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOCIETY Seminar Series 2011-12   Tuesday December 6th, 4-6pm, HA338  Slippin’: Reflections on Participation at the Margins  Simon Newitt This […]

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Futurelab Resources

    

Futurelab resources

                            Computer games and learning handbook Aimed at teachers

TED Talks Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain

 

Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on

FAMILY LIVES TRUANCY NEWS RELEASE

We at CPE-PEN may want to stress a whole range of issues about 'compulsory school attendance' but its worth just reading some of the facts in this news

Chris Shute – What’s the use of homework?

 What’s the use of Homework?2  Chris may be less mobile than he used to be but nothing has stopped the flow of his thoughts and ideas.

OpenEYE Campaign-new website- Save Childhood.net.

A new website www.savechildhood.net has been developed by the OpenEYE Campaign - the multi-disciplinary action group. Two weeks ago the OpenEYE Campaign had a letter published in

Authoritarian Schooling: A Catalogue of Damage. New website.

News from david Gribble Authoritarian Schooling: A Catalogue of Damage, the website I have been working on for the past year, is now live, at

Education in the Gaps between Lessons

Another 'Fireship' from our very own Chris Shute! One of the prime paradoxes of education is that a most important part of anyone’s education takes place at

EdYourself – October 4th 2011

New DfE Guidance on Claiming Funding for Home Educated Children

On September 30th the Department for Education published the new Alternative Provision Funding Guidance for

OpenEye October 2011

Time to arrest the Erosion of Childhood
Letter page and lead headline in the Daily Telegraph, Saturday 24th Sept, 2011
Dear Letters Editor,  SIR -

650,000 British Children on Drug to Control Behaviour

Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at Sheffield University,

 1st Call for papers

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 CELEBRATING CHILDHOOD DIVERSITY

9-11 JULY 2012.

 To celebrate the 10th year of the establishment of the Centre for the

AERO E-News 20.9.2011

Today there is good news and bad news. We have a great gathering to report about, but also we have received the sad news that John Gatto has

BESA releases ‘ICT in UK State Schools’ research

Schools getting on with it by themselves  20 September 2011: At a time of significant uncertainty and funding cuts the results of the new 2011 British Educational Suppliers Association

Ed Yourself News – September 2011

Using Alternative Provision Funding for Home Educated Children

The survey on home education funding published in May 2011 found that while a quarter of local authorities used Alternative Provision

YoungMinds – UNICEF report highlights the scourge of materialism on British children and Young People

YoungMinds - MEDIA RELEASE 14th September 2011 UNICEF report highlights the scourge of materialism on British children and Young People - YoungMinds Commenting on today’s Unicef/Ipsos Mori Children’s

IALA News 16.09.2011

Social and Emotional Learning Impact by Wayne Jennings CASEL, the Collaborative

IALA E-News 15.9.2011

E-news of 15.9.11
 
Hello, This has been a very busy week at AERO as we gear up for the revitalization of the magazine and website and catch up on

Book Review: After Summerhill

After Summerhill

By Hussein Lucas (Herbert Adler Publications)

Reviewed

Chris Shute: Lysdexia Rlues K.O.

We can always rely on Chris to get us thinking!  I’m dyslexic, not in English but in Hebrew. I know all the letters in both the printed and cursive

Education Revolution (AERO) E-News 7.9.11

Some items from the e-news of 7.9.11
Experiences at the Rethinking Everything Conference I’m sitting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airline terminal. They say it is the biggest airport in

New book: Children’s Rights

New Book! Promoting Children’s Rights in Social Work and Social Care – A Guide to Participatory Practice by Margaret Bell, the 14th book in the bestselling series Children in Charge

Press release: Children and mobile phones

Westcoastcloud survey reveals 1 in 10 UK primary school children have iPhones   Cloud services provider releases Netintelligence App on iTunes  One in ten parents in the UK feels

Education Revolution E-News: August 2011

Contents: 1) School Starters Enrollment Now Open

Self-Managed Learning College move

Self Managed Learning College Moves to Brighton Youth Centre The pioneering South Downs Learning Centre is building on its success by moving to larger premises at the

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