Home Educating is a slightly unfortunate term. It’s a misrepresentation of what happens in most family households when they decide to educate their children outside school. Firstly it suggests that children are isolated at home learning by themselves. This is rarely the case, as you can read in this post here. Secondly, it also suggests that the home is where all the learning takes place, which is also untrue for most families. The flexibility of home education means that much of the learning takes place outside of the home. There are ample opportunities for home educators to visit museums, galleries, nature reserves or do field trips, as schools do and this takes some of the learning out of the house. There are also swimming pools, sports facilities and other physical activities like orienteering, wall climbing, ice skating or gyms which home educators also enjoy. But another aspect of home education that is not so commonly known comes with the understanding that focussed learning,
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:45:36 +0000