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Rewilding and Deschooling: a dialogue between Max Hope and Sophie Christophy – Progressive Education

Authors: Max Hope & Sophie Christophy Max Hope, Director of Rewilding Education and advocate of freedom is passionate about rewilding and is ...

Live Events in the Progressive Education Group – Progressive Education

We are excited to announce the launch of Progressive Education Facebook Lives which will be taking place in our Progressive ...

Play, by Sean Bellamy – Progressive Education

The desire to play is fundamental to the human condition and is impossible to suppress.  Even in the most challenging situations, ...

Educational Rights (for Dummies!), by Katy Zago – Progressive Education

How can we recover respect for human rights in education? There’s a reason for the ambiguity of my title. Too ...

Memories That Burn | Wicklow Democratic School

Exploring Wicklow Democratic School’s Relationship With Nature One Monday morning at Wicklow Democratic School, a number of students knelt around ...

From Founding Furnace to Post-Curricular

With retirement on the horizon, I’m feeling reflective. This morning I’m thinking about how different The Circle School is today ...

Let’s Journey the Wilderness Together, by Dr Jo Sweetland – Progressive Education

Watching our oldest child’s interest in learning slowly disappear and their curiosity and creativity dwindle became the motivator to us ...

Response to UNESCO’s ‘Education in a Post-Covid World’ Report – Progressive Education

In UNESCO’s Progress Update on the Futures of Education, published in March 2021, UNESCO denied the value of Self-Directed Education and autonomous ...

Why I Started a Small School, by Rosalyn Spencer – Progressive Education

Dan’s personality had begun to change after he’d started school. He had often been tired and down-hearted when I’d collected ...

Journal of Pedagogy: Home-Based Education – Progressive Education

Volume 12 (2021): Issue 1 (June 2021), Special Issue: Home-Based Education Volume 12 of the Journal of Pedagogy ran a ...

Evidence Base for Self-Directed Education – Progressive Education

By Rose Arnold, Suitable-Education.uk, first published October 2021 “Self-directed education is a pedagogy grounded in biology, anthropology, cognitive science, psychology and child ...

IDECs at Summerhill from 1999 to 2021 – What’s Changed and What Hasn’t? What Needs to Change for United Nations ‘Sustainable Development Goal 4’ to be Realised by 2030? – Progressive Education

Transcript from Derry Hannam’s talk at the online Summerhill Festival of Childhood, October 3rd 2021: My 1999 IDEC [International Democratic ...

I feel peaceful here, Mommy

Faith and family Hello Circle School Family! I became interested in the school many years ago when I started my ...

No, Kids Don’t Rule the School

At first glance, you might get the wrong idea from the title of my book, When Kids Rule the School ...