Tag: Alternative Education

If you are questioning mainstream schooling and looking for something different, do check out our new video! This 9 minute film includes clips from each of the ten modules in our new online course, showcasing ten ways to approach education in the 21st century! Even if people don’t need the full course, this video alone could be […]

Check out our new animation. It shows what we do, why we do it and how we help! Our new short film illustrates how school is the area of life that children and young people are most commonly unhappy with (The Children’s Society’s Good Childhood Report 2025). It also shares various other alarming statistics, such […]

Here is one vision of what a truly decolonised universal state-funded community-owned no-fee education system capable of being rolled out (and in fact, first of all grown up from the bottom) in many different contexts, might look like. This vision has grown in me over the course of my fifty three years of life, fed […]

Do you work at, or does your child attend a part-time learning community? If so, please could you spare a few minutes to complete our survey? The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill was announced in December 2024 and has direct implications for part-time education provisions in England and Wales. This Bill is progressing through parliament quickly right […]

“To trust children is to anchor ourselves to a moral foundation, a place from which a freer world can grow, as long as we’re willing to help it along.” – Idzie Desmarais What if we believed that children were born with innate wisdom? What if we believed that we didn’t know best, just different? What […]

[This article was originally published by Radix whose vision is a sustainable society where all citizens can live securely with dignity, are active participants in society and are free to pursue their own interpretation of the good life.] Over the past half century, despite many changes of government, and many impassioned pleas for alternative visions, […]