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Education & Development
Home education as a provocation for the future of education
UNESCO’s 2021 report ‘Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education’ sets out an invitation to all education stakeholders to participate in policy discussion, research and innovation to transform education.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Are you involved in caring for or educating babies and young children either as a practitioner in the workforce or as a parent/carer? In this free course, Supporting physical development in early childhood, you will learn how to ensure young children do enough physical activity and how it improves child mental and physical health development....
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Health and wellbeing
YXM130 Example subject pathway created by Clare Dunn, Senior Manager for Recognition of Prior Learning.
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Education & Development
Young children, the outdoors and nature
This free course, Young children, the outdoors and nature, looks at the importance of babies and toddlers having opportunities to engage with rich outdoor environments.
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
My recent research on Elective Home Educators (EHE) experience of exam cancellations revealed not only systematic and financial disadvantages for these EHE students but interestingly showed new insights into how they learn, approach and regard exams.
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Education & Development
Home education for children with special educational needs
As a specialist teacher and volunteer with a local autism charity, I had contact with families who had deregistered from school reluctantly, or who considered their children had been ‘off-rolled’.
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Education & Development
We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
There has been continuing annual growth in the number of children and young people being home-educated across the UK.
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Education & Development
Home education collection
This collection of articles is intended to support the educational and professional practices of groups of practitioners, learners, researchers, and policymakers who have a shared interest in the topic of home education, or elective home education within the UK and beyond.
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Understanding the experiences of previously home-educated adults.
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Education & Development
How home educators access exams
There are an estimated 80.000 children home-educated in England. No accurate data is available on how many of these children sit national examinations each year. However, a study during the Covid pandemic shed light on challenges when the exams were cancelled, and some significant inequalities came to light.
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Education & Development
A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
As the population of home-educating families continues to grow, how can professionals improve how they work with parents who may have had a negative experience of previous local authority support?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
This free course will focus on the promotion of effective management of children’s pain, through the use of a pain management framework. The information presented will enable you to gain knowledge and insight into evidence-based practice, in relation to delivering effective pain management for children.