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ESCAPING EDUCATION -Gustavo Esteva A sample article from Turning Points, a book published earlier this year in the USA, which is anthology of responses to four specific questions from thirty five well-known alternative educators. (See the review in this posting).

 
LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION IN CROATIA – Derry Hannam A letter in support of an application to found a democratic school in Croatia, which should be read by all Ministers of Education everywhere.

CHILDREN MAKE THE FUTURE IN THE SHADOW OF THE PAST – Christopher Shute This article, which discusses the implications of the revival of interest in the Bulger case, was originally published in Issue 12 of The Journal of Personalised Education Now.

 
THE FREE SCHOOL, LEIPZIG  -Rachel Roberts An ex-student from Sands School describes the development of democracy at a another school.

IDEC 2011 An announcement about the 2011 International Democration Education Conference, which is to be held next July in the UK, in Devon.
 

Reviews
Children don’t start Wars, by David Gribble: review by Richard Seebohm
Turning Points, edited by Jerry Mintz and Carlo Ricci: review by Lib Ed

http://www.libed.org.uk/articles.html

News

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly-2010-09-07&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium-email is the address for a totally stunning short video of Sugata Mitra talking what has been learnt from the hole-in-the-wall computers for slum children in India.