Free Range Education

How home education works

Terri Dowty (editor)

Welcome to this essential handbook for families considering or starting out in home education. Free Range Education is full of family stories, resources, burning questions, humour, tips, practical steps and useful advice so you can choose what best suits your family situation.

You are already your child's main teacher and these families show how home education can work for you. Both parents and children offer useful guidance, based on their experience.

Practical answers to questions such as 'how do they socialise?', 'money?', 'how do they take exams?', 'what about time for yourself?'

Inspiring blow by blow accounts with stories from 'home education' graduates about their jobs, training and lives.

Resources, contacts, networks and websites where you can get support.

A friendly overview of the legal position to help you deal constructively with education authorities and find the advice you need.

 
224 pages;

216 x 138mm;
1 903458 07 2;
paperback; £12.99

At last, an honest reflection and true celebration of home learning in all its diversity - by home educators for home educators. As ever more parents wake up to alternatives and reject schooling for their children, this book is a timely antidote to all the myths about home education which have been perpetuated by narrow-minded, vested-interest 'educationists'.

Alison Preuss, Schoolhouse Home Education Association