Category: Articles
The desire to play is fundamental to the human condition and is impossible…
How can we recover respect for human rights in education? There’s a reason for the…
Watching our oldest child’s interest in learning slowly disappear and their curiosity…
In UNESCO’s Progress Update on the Futures of Education, published in…
Dan’s personality had begun to change after he’d started school. He had often been…
Transcript from Derry Hannam’s talk at the online Summerhill Festival of…
Learning that’s lost in school can be found in many ways, if it needs to be found at…
When I first went up to Cambridge University, I didn’t find Europe’s…
[A link to the audio version of this article is found at the end.] If you follow the…
Lisa Carne shares with us a flavour of her book, Natural Curiosity, which is a warm…
Context: Since July 2020, Diverse Educators have held a quarterly Diversity Roundtable…
…None appear for ages, then they all come at once! Does this mean that we are…
This article describes my doctoral research into shared decision-making in the…
“Why are those teachers screaming at those kids?” my son James asked me, with a look…
Following the establishment of a state-controlled education system in England and…
When I start talking about self-directed education, one of the first questions which…
A Statement from Zoë Readhead-Neill, Principal at Summerhill School: Today the UK…
Children’s long term well-being depends on being given the time to make sense of their…
[This article was originally published on Age of Awareness which is Medium’s largest…
Our world needs creative problem solvers. People who know how they learn, how to…
Naomi Fisher is a clinical psychologist and author. Her book ‘Changing Our Minds; How…