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...mode of education adequately prepares young people for participating in society, with the notable example of employment. It is often the case that due to this community and their voices being underrepresented that the media, and society, comes to be proliferated by misconceptions, assumptions and stereotypes on the role of home education preparing (or not) children for...

...mode”’, Danielle added, and she’s currently refreshing her Spanish language skills and exploring other languages and cultures with us! In fact, we ‘discovered’ Danielle as she was posting on an Instagram account that she has dedicated to her studies (both about her degree and OpenLearn) where she says she has found ‘a vibrant student community where I can tap...

...mode” and try and get their children to engage with books in a very narrow way resonant of formal teaching: usually making children look at a book while trying to get them to sit still on the adult’s lap or in a stroller. And wherever toddlers and preschoolers got to touch books, baby wipes and hand sanitizers never seemed far away. Did these adults think the literacy...

...modes of privilege/discrimination and advantage/disadvantage. Recently, CRT has become a controversial theory and approach in the UK. The Department for Education has opposed the teaching of CRT in schools (September 2020) and the current UK government debated the teaching of CRT in schools in the House of Commons declaring itself ‘unequivocally against’ it....

...et al., 2012; Troyer et al., 2019). The latter refers to reading for recognition, for reward or to please teachers/parents. Research also indicates that the relationship between intrinsic motivation and reading skills develops at the early age of 6 years (McGeown et al., 2015) and that children can be both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated at the same time...