Flexible Futures – Progressive Education – Conference line-up

A National Flexischooling Conference:  ‘Flexible Futures – Progressive Education’.  2nd November 2012, Britannia Hotel, Coventry. Conference Line Up Dr Paul Kelley Best known for his innovative headship of Monkseaton High School in the North East, Paul has worked with BBC, […]

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Flexible Futures – Progressive Education

Its full steam ahead for the next phase of bringing flexischooling to the wider educational and public audience. Our own Flexischooling Learning Exchange proved to be a very

Flexischooling – Building the Network

The CPE-PEN Flexischooling Learning Exchange resolved to continue the process of building the flexischooling network and developing advocacy strategies with government and its agencies, local authorities and schools. BUILDING

Flexischooling Learning Exchange – Reflections

Without doubt our April Flexischooling Exchange proved to be one our our most successful events in recent years. In a packed lecture theatre Exchange participants from all over

CfL: New Policy Blog

The Campaign for Learning launches today its new weekly policy blog 'For Learning', which you can find at

elearningeuropa.info Jan 2012

New competition in informal learning. After leading a successful competition for social

IDEC 2012 Puerto Rico

OpenEye January Update

Items from the OpenEye January 2012 Update
 
THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO THE EYFS CONSULTATION  
We were astonished to see that the government's response, far from being sensitive to the items

Journal for Co-operative Studies Special Education Edition

Thank you to Maureen Breeze for the following...

Good to see this education  special edition  from the Journal of Co-operative Studies.

Flexischooling from ad hoc to tip of an iceberg?

We've reported many times on the growing number of flexischooling initiatives.  The concept originated with our own leading light Dr Roland Meighan  http://edheretics.gn.apc.org/ http://www.rolandmeighan.co.uk/ and discussions held with  John

Don Glines: New Book.

  At CPE-PEN we're always delighted to support the work of Don Glines. He's delivered a blockbuster here. Don has successfully got to grips with personalisation

Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World

New book from Charles Leadbeater... Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World. This is a 'head up' on the book. Charles Leadbeater is always a good,

‘The Purpose of Education: A Need for an Extensive Public Debate’

Our good friend Dr Tim Rudd has been stirring up public and political eductaional debate for some time.  To kick off 2012 he's attempting to get 100,000 signatures on

Ed Yourself – January 2012

With great thanks to Fiona Nicholson for news from the Home Education world.

Ongoing:Local Authority Support with Finding Exam Centre

85% of local authorities have now sent

IALA International Association for Learning Alternatives: Winter News

Excerpts from IALA's winter news

TIDE: Teachers In Development Education. January Campaign

I can honestly say I probably learned more about learning and teaching with my career long association with the Development Education Centre (Birmingham) now TIDE - (Teachers in

AERO E-news 25.11.2011

Excerpt from Aero's newsletter 25.11.2011

Dear friends of AERO, Last Sunday we did a very successful first Internet radio show based on our current school starter's class.

Children, Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation

The Centre

for Children and Young People’s Participation

promoting and researching participation, inclusion and empowerment

First announcement and Call for Papers for

Slippin’: Reflections on Participation at the Margins

The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation

promoting and researching participation, inclusion and empowerment

 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOCIETY

Seminar Series

FAMILY LIVES TRUANCY NEWS RELEASE

We at CPE-PEN may want to stress a whole range of issues about 'compulsory school attendance' but its worth just reading some of the facts in this news

OpenEYE Campaign-new website- Save Childhood.net.

A new website www.savechildhood.net has been developed by the OpenEYE Campaign - the multi-disciplinary action group. Two weeks ago the OpenEYE Campaign had a letter published in

Authoritarian Schooling: A Catalogue of Damage. New website.

News from david Gribble Authoritarian Schooling: A Catalogue of Damage, the website I have been working on for the past year, is now live, at

EdYourself – October 4th 2011

New DfE Guidance on Claiming Funding for Home Educated Children

On September 30th the Department for Education published the new Alternative Provision Funding Guidance for

OpenEye October 2011

Time to arrest the Erosion of Childhood
Letter page and lead headline in the Daily Telegraph, Saturday 24th Sept, 2011
Dear Letters Editor,  SIR -

AERO E-News 20.9.2011

Today there is good news and bad news. We have a great gathering to report about, but also we have received the sad news that John Gatto has

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