The Case for Home Schooling

1. The Purpose of Education

Love of Learning - Emotional Education - Life Skills - Finding your Strengths - Engaging with the World - Creating Space for Childhood - Embracing Autonomy - Becoming Trustworthy

2. How Children Learn

Learning Through Wonder - Observation - Experience and Apprenticeship - Free Play - Conversational Learning - Natural Curiosity - Kinaesthetic Learning - Recognition - Mixed Age Play - Time to Digest

3. The Benefits of Home Education

Tried and Tested - Living Better - Finding Your Comfort Zone - Avoiding Tribalism - Freedom from Bullying - Finding Focus - Whole Family Benefit - Learning Without Boundaries

 Stories of home educating from 14 families

4. Key Questions

The Law - Local Authority Involvement - Socialisation - English and Maths - Special Educational Needs - Addressing Distraction - Finances - Teaching Toolkit - Homeschooling Terminology - Parent Self-Care

5. 101 Ideas for Homeschooling

Concrete Activities to Explore - The Highly Sensitive Child - School vs. Homeschool Schedule Comparison - Common Arguments for Sending Children to School

Anna Dusseau home educates her three children. Her gritty, wisdom-filled approach shows how home schooling can work brilliantly for families in post-Lockdown times. She draws on extensive teaching experience. She witnessed how mainstream schooling limited, and even damaged, her children’s well-being, curiosity and learning. The success of Anna’s popular Homeschool Guru Blog has led to giving public talks, writing articles in leading journals like the Times Educational Supplement and giving interviews such as on Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ on home schooling during Lockdown.