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Tag Archives: Harriet Pattison
HOW TO DESIRE DIFFERENTLY: Home Education as Different, not Better, than School
Record: Harriet Pattison, “How To Desire Differently: Home Education as a Heterotopia” in Journal of Philosophy of Education 49, no. 4 (November 2015): 619-637 [Available Here] Summary: Pattison, many of whose other works have been reviewed on this blog, here offers a more philosophical … Continue reading
Posted in International
Tagged Autonomous education, Autonomous Learning, Badman Review, Graham Badman, Harriet Pattison, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, John Holt, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Michel Foucault, Unschooling
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RETHINKING LEARNING TO READ: A Book-Length Study from the United Kingdom
Record: Harriet Pattison, Rethinking Learning to Read (Shrewsbury, UK: Educational Heretics Press, 2016) Summary: Pattison’s name and work will be familiar to long-time readers of this blog. She has worked closely with Alan Thomas for many years now, employing surveys and interviews … Continue reading
Posted in International, Pedagogy
Tagged Alan Thomas, Badman Review, Educational Heretics Press, Harriet Pattison, phonics, Reading
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LITERACY: Informal Acquisition and Development
Record: Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison, “The Informal Acquisition and Development of Literacy” in International Perspectives on Home Education (2015): 57-73. [Table of Contents] Summary: This article is part of a series of reviews on the book International Perspectives on Home Education. Thomas is a visiting fellow and … Continue reading
Posted in International, Pedagogy
Tagged Alan Thomas, child-centered, Harriet Pattison, Implicit learning, Incidental learning, Informal Home Education, International Perspectives on Home Education, John Dewey, Literacy, progressive, Self directed learning
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INFORMAL HOME EDUCATION: A Philosophical Rationale for Liberated Pedagogy
Record: Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison, “Informal Home Education: Philosophical Aspirations Put Into Practice” in Studies in Philosophy and Education 32(2): 141-154 (2013) [Available Here] British researchers Thomas and Pattison are frequent collaborators, most significantly on the 2008 revision of … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum
Tagged Alan Thomas, Autonomous Learning, Harriet Pattison, Informal Home Education, J. C. Blokhuis, John Dewey, Natural Learning, Osmotic, Randall Curren, Unschooling
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Summaries of Two Recent European Home Education Conferences
In November of 2012 two important conferences, one in Berlin, Germany and the other in Madrid, Spain, were held. Both were concerned primarily with fostering a political climate of openness to home education in European countries.
Posted in International, Legal
Tagged Berlin, Berlin Declaration, Carme Urpí, Global Home Education Conference, Harriet Pattison, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, Madrid, Other Education, The New American, Third National Conference on Family Education/Homeschooling, Universidad de Navarra, University of Birmingham
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