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Click on a title to view the full article. ----- Archive of previous articles February 2005 THE BRUTALITY OF SCHOOL: Jürg Jegge CHICAGO HOPE HUT-BUILDING AT TAMARIK: Pat Edwards REVIEW
ROOM 13: David Gribble SUMMERHILL: POSSIBLY THE MOST INSPECTED SCHOOL IN THE WORLD: Matthew Appleton BREAKING AN OATH: Maria Kopta THE OTHER EXTREME THE 365-DAY SCHOOL HOLIDAY July 2005 JANUSZ KORCZAK: Joop Berding THE CHARTER OF THE MODERN SCHOOL SELIBA SA BOITHUTU ESSA BOOKS ON LINE January 2006 CLUB-HOUSE DEMOCRACY: Leonard Turton SELIBA SA BOITHUTU: THE IDEAS BEHIND IT: Gerard Mathot THE VALUE OF THE THINGS THEY LEARN: Martin Roberts SAYING NO TO CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES IDEC June 2006 CHILDREN IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: P. J. Lolichen ETHICAL ISSUES IN CHILDREN'S RESEARCH LEARNING WHAT WE LIKE, OR LEARNING WHAT WE CARE FOR?: Eric Nicolas Schneider ONE REPORTER, TWO ARTICLES DOES KORCZAK HAVE A FUTURE?: Gérard Kahn November 2006 BILINGUALISM: Christine Hélot THE DIDENHEIM PROJECT: Christine Hélot and Andrea Young AUSTRIA'S COOL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION MOVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: THE YOUNG ARTISTS OF CIRCUS KAOS: Ruth Schleicher THE CONSEQUENCES OF PREVENTING CHILDREN FROM WORKING February 2007 NAMING THE NEW TOTALITARIANISM: Michael Fielding HOW WE ARE MAKING LEARNING BETTER: Sylvia Lim PRACTICAL ANARCHISM: U3A, THE UNLIKELY BAKUNISTS: Martyn Everett 97% TO 3% OPEN LEARNING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF FALKO PESCHEL June 2007 FIGHTING BACK: Mark Curtis DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION WITH FIVE-YEAR-OLDS: Jerry Mintz TWELVE REASONS NOT TO SET HOMEWORK: Leonard Turton WE MUST NOT TAKE SIDES: Peter Staffa September 2007 ALEXANDER TUBELSKY (1940 – 2007) SCHOOL NUMBER 734 RISINGHILL REVISITED GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE BEATING THEM AT THEIR OWN GAME
EDUCATION ACCORDING TO TOLSTOY CHILDREN HOLD LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ACCOUNTABLE SCHOOL COUNCILS – SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL COUNCILS – SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT BRAIN RESEARCH AND LEARNING IN SCHOOL THE NASUWT AND STUDENT VOICE May 2008 EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDHOOD Robin Alexander's keynote lecture at the conference on Childhood, Wellbeing and Primary Education organised by the General Teaching Council for England Extract from the NGO alternative report on the UK Implementation of the Convention on the rights of the Child The speech delivered by Danielle Souness, of Room 13, at the Artworks Conference in Tate Modern, when she was twelve years old The December newsletter from Hope Flowers School, in Bethlehem. WHITE LION STREET FREE SCHOOL An ex-pupil tells of her own experiences at the school and describes the effect it had on her life AUSTRIAN SCHOOL STUDENTS SETTLE THE SCORE Coole Schule , the Austrian association of school students, gives up on politics. WHY DON'T STUDENTS IN DEMOCRATIC SCHOOLS DO MORE? An email correspondence between Luke Flegg, an ex-pupil of Sands School, and Moe Zimmerman, staff member at the Tutorial School, New Mexico.
THE BAUMGARTEN CHILDREN'S HOME The Kinderheim Baumgarten was a Jewish children's home set up in Vienna after the first world war. Bernfeld's methods would still seem innovative if they were introduced today. ADDRESS TO THE FIRST EUROPEAN DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION CONFERENCE NO DIPLOMAS IN ARCHITECTURE The Indian organisation, Shikshantar, runs a campaign against academic qualifications. They have published many relevant stories. This is one of them. MY FREE SCHOOL DAYS Akira Potter has been a pupil at two free schools in Japan, and at Summerhill. He describes his experiences. THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY: A LIBERTARIAN VIEW LIMITLESS AND INTERSECTING COMMUNITIES A response to Peter Higginson's article
ACTIVITY BASED LEARNING IN CHENNAI An account of what must be the most widespread liberalisation of education anywhere in the world. Positive and negative reactions to the new English Education and Skills Bill A STUDENT TEACHER’S ESSAY A new student’s response to the demand, “With reference to your subject specialism and your intention to teach, critically evaluate significant experiences that have shaped your learning.” AT WILLIAM BOOTH WE LOVE CHILDREN Inspiring extracts from the leaflets published by William Booth Nursery and Infant School in Nottingham. WHAT ABOUT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE? An anonymous poem from the 1990s. Nigel Wright responds to Jenny Aster’s article on the White Lion Street Free school, published on this site in May last year, and Jenny Aster replies.
Some extracts from a book on Carl Rogers’ approach to counselling by David Mearns and Brian Thorne, rewritten to illustrate an approach to education. The remit of the Edge Learner Forums is to promote vocational learning and qualifications and bring them up to an equal status with academic learning. In fact they do much more. BUTTERFLIES An account of a visit to Butterflies, the organisation for street and working children in New Delhi. NEEL BAGH Amukta Mahapatra describes Neel Bagh, founded by David Horsburgh in 1972, the inspiration for many prominent Indian educators. RAISING THE SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE Alan was one of the victims of the raising of the school-leaving age in 1972. His experience has contemporary relevance. Robert Hamm on Siegfried Bernfeld, the founder of the Baumgarten Children’s Home. Corrections to the translation of article on the Baumgarten Children’s Home, posted on this site in September 2008. |