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Curriculum

What’s wrong with exams?

This is the first full week of exams at our NSWLearning exam centre and it started me thinking about our relationship with exams as home educators. As somebody who did his teacher training in the 1970s, I am old enough to remember the great counter-cultural educational movements of the 1970s Read more…

By Steve Richards, 3 years11th October 2019 ago
Birmingham skyline
Home education

Narcissistic children and self-esteem

There can be no doubt that self-esteem (perhaps self-worth is a better term) is an important part of people’s lives. It is also true that we all like to be encouraged and affirmed in what we do and who we are – it makes us feel good about ourselves. Historically, Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years13th March 2018 ago
Child chalkling on pavement
Alt Education

What schools can learn from John Holt

I am a great fan of the American educationalist John Holt. I am very aware that this does not necessarily endear me to some Christians who struggle with what they perceive to be his radical child-centred educational agenda. Whatever one might think of Holt’s philosophy of learning (and I feel Read more…

By Steve Richards, 8 years23rd April 2014 ago
Drawing - Toucan
Curriculum

Students as owners of their own learning

A few days ago I spent an hour chatting with a friend about her 17-year-old son who is struggling with A levels. She wanted my advice, although if truth be told, I think she needed to tell her story to somebody much more than hear what I had to say. Read more…

By Steve Richards, 10 years14th November 2012 ago
Map showing Rochdale
Alt Education

Another good idea to come out of Rochdale!

Last week I was invited to speak at a meeting in Rochdale in Lancashire. A group of folks are busy setting up an excited new venture known as Gateway Christian Education, aimed at supporting Christian home educators and others within the region. It is a radical proposal involving a sort Read more…

By Steve Richards, 12 years26th November 2010 ago
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