My thoughts on an article in the Journal of Philosophy of Education that discusses, among other interesting things, the uneasy relationships between homeschooling and mainstream schooling.

Homeschooling Current Issues, Homeschooling research, School reform, UK homeschoolingPatrick FarengaFebruary 22, 2016Harriet Pattison, Home Education as a Heterotopia, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Ken Danford Comments

When Are Global Calls for Support from Homeschoolers Appropriate?

On a tactical level, it seems futile to think by signing an online petition about the laws of a country where I am not a citizen that I will somehow help shape that country’s laws. However, on a strategic level, I can see how all these actions are important and linked . . .

France, Homeschooling Current Issues, Legal Issues, Public School Issues, UK homeschoolingPatrick FarengaMarch 14, 2014French Homeschooling, Children and Young People Bill, Romeike, homeschool political asylum, Homeschooling News Comments

In Honor of an Education Heretic

Many American homeschoolers are probably unfamiliar with Dr. Roland Meighan, who died on January 20, 2014, but he was an important and wonderful person whose work should be more widely known. Roland admired the work of John Holt and he reached out to me in the mid 1980s, offering his help to spread the word about alternatives to school . . .

John Holt GWS