Category: Research

Mar 12
Democratic Empowerment: How do Students Feel About Their Student Council? By Hope Wilder

What Students Say Matters Most schools do not look like a democratic society at all.…

May 03
Real World Learning: School 21 and XP

Here is a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER),…

Oct 26
Journal of Pedagogy: Home-Based Education

Volume 12 (2021): Issue 1 (June 2021), Special Issue: Home-Based Education Volume 12…

Oct 24
Evidence Base for Self-Directed Education

By Rose Arnold, Suitable-Education.uk, first published October 2021…

Jan 13
The Student Experience of Self Managed Learning (SML): Evidence From Research

By Nicola Sankey, March 2008 (with Introduction by Dr. Graham Dawes) [At the time what…

Jan 08
Home Education Trends, Preliminary Report

By Wendy Charles-Warner, EducationOtherwise.org December 2020 This report examines…

Jan 07
Home-Education: Aims, Practices and Outcomes

By Paula Rothermel, University of Durham, 2002 Abstract This research explores the…

Jan 06
Preventing school exclusion: a case study of a primary aged autistic child with ADHD and a PDA profile

By Catrina Lyle and Heather Leatherland Catrina Lyle is an advisory teacher within the…

Jan 06
A Summary of Research on Self Managed Learning

The material in this document is just a small snapshot of the extensive evaluations…

Oct 21
Learning from the COVID-19 home-schooling experience: Listening to pupils, parents/carers and teachers

A report by Mari-Ana Jones (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Sara…

Aug 19
Staff of 2030: Future-Ready Teaching

In the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Staff of 2030: Future-Ready Teaching report…

Aug 19
I was a Teenage Governor

These papers are the reports of the first and second stages in the ‘I was a teenage…

Mar 21
“The Hannam Report” – Investigating the Impact of Student Participation on Education

This study from 2001, by Derry Hannam (a now retired state secondary school teacher,…

Mar 12
Home Schooled Children’s Social Skills

“Research affirms that although homeschooling parents are not worried about…

Mar 11
Summer Born Report

The Campaign for Flexible School Admissions for Summer Born Children, or “Summer Born…

Mar 11
A Healthy Foundation for the Future

A report by The Health Foundation (2019) found that 80% of teachers feel that the…

Mar 11
The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning

“…we did extensive research in self-directed learning, in many places and through many…

Mar 10
Home School Vs State School

Specific Differences in the Educational Outcomes of Those Students who are Home…

Mar 10
Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream

A study by Patrick Basham, John Merrifield, and Claudia R. Hepburn This is the 2nd…

Mar 10
Research into Children’s Rights Education

A Review of Recent Research into Children’s Rights Based Education in State…

Mar 06
Soft Skills Training in Schools Improves Health and Behaviour

A trial of a new curriculum to improve soft skills in secondary school children has…