Alternative schools
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- Created on: 05-11-18 20:11
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- Alternative education
- Steiner schools
- Summerhill radical school. offers 80 ish students education based on the idea that they shouldn't be forced to do anything, they can decide to do anything but harm others
- Classes with mixed abilities, gender and multi faith. The curriculum is very flexible and offers students a chance to learn in a creative learning environment
- Home schooling
- Reasons
- Cannot get a place for their child in a school of their choice
- Unhappy at school
- Methods of teaching in school are not right for their child
- Special needs
- Parents were home educated themselves or raised in situation where education was not focused on a traditional school environment
- Philosophical or religious reasons
- An education can be delivered at home by either tutors or parents. According to research conducted by Glasgow university 2008, around 50,000 people are taught at home
- Reasons
- De-schooling (1970s)
- Functionalist, Ivan Illich (1973) agrees that schools give us important skills and knowledge, and like marxists he argues that schools pass on dominant values
- individuals could use certain web sites and tutors when they feel like they need them. this would prevent particular schools and organisations from holding a monopoly of information
- the idea that schools should be abolished and replaced with some kind of informal education system
- Steiner schools
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