...there is a segment of education that does have the freedom, the ability, and the will to fully engage in a wide variety of educational experiments. That segment is generally called homeschooling, although we prefer the term “family education” because most of it is not schooling and does not happen at home. By now, the practice of family education has expanded and diversified so much that some of the most exciting and forward-thinking experiments in educational reform are happening as small scale models within individual families, small coops, regional support groups, and virtual networks of home educators around the globe.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Family education or homeschooling as a commons-based economy
by Maria Droujkova and Carol Cross from P2P Foundation. I know next to nothing about today's educational issues except that the existing system does not work for most children in the US. This essay appears to have a lot of promising, creative ideas using people power at the grass roots.