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Summerhill School celebrates its centenary!
We are collaborating with other international democratic/alternative
education organisations to organise a festival in August 2021 to
celebrate childhood as a whole and the inspirations A.S. Neill has given
the world of education and parenting.
This festival will be a community and family event
Dates: 6-11th of August 2021
(See description section for more information.)
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Tell us about your experience as a Democratic school student!
A research study at The University of Melbourne — Investigating Meaning and Self-Efficacy among past pupils of Democratic and Mainstream Schools — is looking for
democratic school alumni to participate in an online survey.
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A new school is opening up and seeks British trained education staff.
They aim hopefully - given current circumstances - to open in Tenerife (Canary Islands) in September 2020.
"We have set ourselves the challenge of creating a school that will not only allow children the time and space they need to develop, but which will also encourage different ways of thinking about education and childhood. Ultimately, our mission is to create a school that values caring relationships based on trust, and makes heard the voices of children in all aspects of their education."
Follow this link for the book Considering Children: A parents’ guide to progressive education (1985) by David Gribble: http://www.davidgribble.co.uk/books/books-considering-children.htm
and to see other publications and information by David, who has long been a key player in the development of knowledge about alternative, democratically imbued education.
This is the baseline test handed to parents for reception children - tested age 4-5 in reception class in England. Alienating, useless, likely inaccurate (can 4-5 years do it right?) and lacking in any decent information that one might call educational. It says too little and what it does say is said badly. A good idea?
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Other Education is pleased to welcome Adam Jordan, Assistant Professor of Early Childhood/Special Education at The University of North Georgia, as Book Reviews Editor.
