Home Education and the Safeguarding Myth: Analysing the Facts Behind the Rhetoric. Wendy Charles-Warner (Centre for Personalised Education)

The following article appeared in as a guest post in Heutagogy Community of Practice http://heutagogycop.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/the-pah-continuum-pedagogy-andragogy-heutagogy/ It follows from Paul Henderson’s mention of andragogy – which some, may not be familiar with. Fred

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Good to see this education  special edition  from the Journal of Co-operative Studies.

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/8274050/Children-given-chemical-cosh-drugs-for-shyness.html 
• 14 Sep 2011 – Children who are merely shy or sad are at risk of being diagnosed with mental disorders and given powerful drugs, experts

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

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

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

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

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

The latest thoughts from Dr Tim Rudd as he turns his attention to the Big Society. Happy Birthday Big Society? More Challenges Ahead  Dr. Tim Rudd Livelab www.livelab.org.uk May 17th

  The gender of school pupils and their parents’ educational level has no major effect on the performance of the most able 25% of those taking GCSEs, research

Reading books is the only out-of-school activity for 16-year-olds that is linked to their getting a better career, a new study has found.

 The British Sociological Association’s annual

This resarch appears to confirm what we've always known... many learners 'power down' at the school gates. The digital technologies and software they access in the rest of

 An exclusive report launched today, 3^rd March, entitled “What Kids Are Reading: The Book-Reading Habits of Pupils in British Schools 2011,”  shows that primary schools have made impressive