Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/newresources.html Another of our favourite websites. Well worth exploring on a

This is the sixth and final part of Paul Henderson's Think Piece. Part 5 is within this blog and the previous parts can be obtained from our main website and the e-briefing

Go to the Futurelab website for some of the best thinking and projects around http://www.futurelab.org.uk/ Get the latest from Futurelab from their April e-news 

Britannia Sachas Hotel, Tib Street , Piccadilly, Manchester M4 1SH 24 April 2008This conference will look at the research background of learning to learn

Implementing 14-19 Qualification and Curriculum Reform, 22 April 2008: with Mary Curnock Cook, QCA Taking Forward Adult

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is looking to appoint a Children and Young People’s Participation Project Manager to oversee its activities and framework for the

University of Central Lancashire - Faculty of Health In collaboration with The Children’s and Young People’s Participation Learning Network. A practitioner workshop led by Harry Shier. Harris Park Conference Centre,

IALA news - latest April  blog entries http://www.learningalternatives.net/

•  A Second Side to the Story
• Webcast: Dropout Crisis
• A Curriculum for Thinking
• What Doesn't Get Measured Doesn't Get Done
• Options for the High School

Implementing 14-19 Qualification and Curriculum Reform, 22 April 2008 Innovation Nation: Will the DIUS White Paper

AERO  picked up the following video in their recent March e-newsletter. Democratic values, organisation and practice are core principles for Personalised Education Now - without them we can never

Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills) and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) have jointly welcomed the news that up to £60 million per year has been approved by

www.DemocraticEducation.com is now live!  This website serves as the virtual home for The Directory of Democratic Education as well as a location providing unique articles, essay, links,

If you ever thought technology that won't change the our learning systems I urge you to see Bob Harrison's blog piece and especially the accompanying video on Futurelab's

A big thank you to everyone who turned out for the learning exchange despite the early morning snow storm. We had a really stimulating day. Thanks to Alan Clawley

Schools as we know them are past their sell by date as more and more people begin to recognise. If we have to build institutional learning spaces with

One of the key big questions that kept entering conversations during the day was what counts as successful education? It’s a basic question

You can track my comments on the learning Spaces aspects of this day in the FLUX blog

Book Review by Karen Turner. Can’t Go, Won’t Go by Mike Fortune Wood. ISBN 978-1-905614-49-3. Cinnamon Press. £11.99. www.cinnamonpress.com  I thoroughly enjoyed reading Can’t

David Gribble taught at Dartington Hall School for almost thirty years, and was then one of the joint founders of Sands School. Since retiring he has visited democratic

African Childhood in Transition. Saturday, 26 April 2008 10.30am - 5.30pm, followed by a drinks reception. British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Professor Helen Penn University of East London Wednesday 9 April 2008 6 – 8 pm Stratford Campus Room: RB1.16 Education Building ALL WELCOME

Trustees of PEN are seeking to extending the range of our learning exchanges and moving the venues around the UK with the support

CPE - PEN promote the idea of recycling our schools into invitational, all-age community learning centres. Schools as we know them are well past their sell by date

Our vision Antidote’s aim is to create an emotionally literate society, where the facility to handle the complexities of emotional life is as widespread as the capacity to read,