"What is education at home?" someone asked: "What ever to do with sustainable living?" This voice came from a few feet behind me while I was in the shop of the Centre for Alternative Technology navigation (www.cat.org.uk). Stocks store, including a wide selection of books on various aspects of sustainable living, the use of natural materials and organic gardening for vegetarians and education at home. Not that I used to listen toSure! It is just that sometimes can go an unexpected question from someone else one-stop to examine short and once again, a supposition.
Home Education is to choose where parents take full responsibility for the education of their children, rather than the transfer of any substantial part of it, in a school. It 'is a valid and reasonable legal alternative to traditional schools in the UK and indeed in many other countries.
Estimates of the number of children educated at home in Britainrange from about 50000-150000, depending on the source. The number of families choosing this option seems to be growing. (Composition of Education Otherwise - educate http://www.education-otherwise.org a charity important to support families at home has doubled over the past two years.)
So, how is teaching children at home a sustainable business?
Delete the first schooling. This reduces the number of miles flown, even though some of those milesfamilies will be traveling to events and social gatherings.
Second, it provides an opportunity for children to attend practices daily a sustainable lifestyle. Recycling, composting, growing and cooking their food animals and looking after younger children, keeping house and garden, learn to take care, such as the reuse and repair items rather than throw away. (Learn how things work and the material from which they are composed.)
Third, itoffers children the opportunity to present information in a way that promotes a holistic perspective. Many materials are used in schools facto standard from the point of view that is consumerism. Some are sponsored by private companies to start a vested interest in helping children with their products from an early age, for example, information on dental care from a leading manufacturer of toothpaste, which have produced to promote the use of fluoride. At home, parents can report on allalternatives on which they are familiar. as the advantages and disadvantages of using fluorine as a means to protect your teeth.
Fourth encourage children to learn how organisms are consistent with theirs. Gains more confidence in themselves to learn how to learn in the way of feeling, you know, what time they learn best and how their feelings and their health, it affects. Children are free to experiment with it and with different learning materials. Consequently, the type of learningholistic view of their mental and emotional well-being and is tailored to their individual needs.
Fifth There are many opportunities for physical activity such as garden, a walk to go play, go swimming when the pool is quiet.
Sixth Reduced expenditure on clothing - there is no need to separate clothing and shoes for school, no need to give in to peer pressure to buy designer labels, expensive.
Seventh Efficient use of resourceshome. The house is well used throughout the day, rather than just a place to sleep or spend the weekend.
8th Efficient use of materials for learning every day. Much of the material used in schools are expensive to replace the real thing in the outside world such as plastic imitation coins, weights and measures are artificial curriculum used in mathematics. At home, children learn by using real money, weighing and measuring in real products like cooking activities,Learn to read a real book. Using the Internet and television the same way as mature students and perform their experiments with the elements in the garden and kitchen, and their observations and interactions with the world around them to find.
Ninth Efficient use of time. Little time is wasted traveling between classes or prepare for their child playing in his learning process takes place spontaneously and during normal daily activities. Travel to and from the 'LED lesson occasional tutor for a child educated at home often feel targeted by conversation or music or a tape filled with history.
10th Improving health and wellbeing. Because time is used efficiently, allowing more time to engage in alternative medicine for children, relaxation and spiritual practices like yoga, meditation and prayer in a calm and peaceful.
11 More time for hobbies. There are also a lot of time, or have a favorite subject areaHobbies, such as music, arts and crafts, astronomy, bird watching.
If the numbers of home educating families continue to grow straight like this one method of education itself?
A strong possibility is through the creation of learning communities, perhaps even the existing facilities in libraries, community centers, recreation centers and other public buildings. As a community of learning is different from a school? According to Ron Miller in his book "Creating LearningCommunity, "Schools are places where" is divided into compartments and learning is packaged in textbooks and lesson plans. Teachers are not credited for their mentoring skills, but their methods of classroom teaching and curriculum delivery. "He sees the need to" invent new social and economic structures that nourish the soul and connect the individual culture, community, the biological process and cycles of the earth, and avenues of spiritual satisfaction. "Thus, inThe learning community, participants - adults or children - for their own learning program, they will decide which events to attend or not and with whom. Follow their own learning styles and preferences and learn alongside others with similar interests, regardless of age, gender or other differences.
Parents in many families make the decision to educate at home, working hours and / or work from home to home educate to reduce. This in itself is a adult Pressto facilitate the wide range of skills and interests, workshops and other learning groups. Lifelong learning is a growing need for the information age. Is no longer true that most need to know that we can age 4-18 years, feeding by spoon be absorbed by a minority of adults formally qualified to teach.
We as adults have already shown that we need the flexibility to retrain and diversify in order to remain employable or successfulin self-employment. From my perspective, is our ability to learn and to learn also that distinguishes us in the future. For our children this is probably even more how to deal with the seasoned perspective of a longer working life with many technological, social and ecological changes. Usually work from home or in a learning community, these habits of learning and skills are the key to sustainable learning at home.
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