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Школы разные нужны?Демократическая школа в Англии. Могут ли дети самостоятельно руководить школой?Школа, где все правила устанавливают дети. Где взрослые не учителя, а лишь помощники. Где нет расписания и классов. Ученики сами могут выбирать учить им математику или сегодня попрыгать с забора. Кажется, что такие школы бывают только в фильмах и книгах. Но нет. Трое детей героини выпуска Любови Никулиной учатся как раз в такой английской школе. Причем речь идет не о малышах. У Любови трое детей - Элина (ей 16 лет), Влад (14 лет) и Эмилия (7 лет). Все они посещали школу East Kent Sudbury. Элина уже поступила в колледж. Да, да. Учась в такой школе и не проходя полноценную школьную программу. История ее поступления есть в подкасте. Послушайте ее, она потрясающая.В выпуске мы говорим о том, как можно контролировать процесс анскулинга, как семьи относятся к инспекторам, почему школьные собрания проходит в барах и причем тут курочки. Послушайте и приходите в телеграм канал подкаста "Одной школой сыт не будешь" обсуждать такую форму обучения - https://t.me/yaanelleyaТелеграм канал героини "А как же социализация" https://t.me/unschool_busСайт школы East Kent Sudbury https://www.eastkentsudbury.org.uk/2025-06-2447 min
FLOURISHING EDUCATION - How do we re-MEMBER to BE, BE-come, and BE-long to FLOURISH TOGETHER?Episode 235 - When the most challenging in our lives becomes the most important things with Kate ColemanToday I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with Kate Coleman, a Founder/Director at East Kent Sudbury. Change Maker, Freelance Management and Strategy Consultant.
Together we explore Kate's journey into re-membering that she is a life-long, life-wide and life-deep learner and their approach at East Kent Sudbury, which is a Self-Directed Democratic Learning Community For Home Educated Children.
We cover so much ground, there would be too much to write in this short description, so I invite you to simply come and listen and see what your key take-aways are and what...2024-05-091h 09
Yo Soy Tu MismoEscuela de Sabiduría de la No dualidadpor Ernesto León.196-QUE MIEDO TIENES A PERDER CUANDO MUERAS ~ Alan WattsAlan Wilson Watts (Chislehurst, Kent, 6 de enero de 1915 – Mt. Tamalpais, California, 16 de noviembre de 1973) fue un filósofo británico, así como editor, sacerdote anglicano, locutor, decano, escritor, conferenciante y experto en religión. Se le conoce sobre todo por su labor como intérprete y popularizador de las filosofías asiáticas para la audiencia occidental.
Escribió más de veinticinco libros y numerosos artículos sobre temas como la identidad personal, la verdadera naturaleza de la realidad, la elevación de la conciencia y la búsqueda de la felicidad, relacionando su experiencia con el conocimiento científico y con la e...2023-03-2708 min
The Unschool Space#28 Deschooling, healing, and stepping off the treadmill, with Emily GhassempourMy guest today is Emily Ghassempour. Emily has a son and a daughter, who are 8 and nearly 6, and they left mainstream school just six months ago. School had become a source of extreme stress for the whole family. Daily meltdowns and anxiety finally culminated in the children refusing to go to school and in the family’s decision that they had to try something else. The children now go to the self-directed East Kent Sudbury School three days a week. Emily describes the changes she’s seen as they have relaxed into living and learning naturally, and how she feel...2022-10-1740 minFLOURISHING EDUCATION - How do we re-MEMBER to BE, BE-come, and BE-long to FLOURISH TOGETHER?Episode 99 - Reforming education one conversation at a time with May-Ling ThomasI am so happy to share this conversation with May-Ling Thomas who is a home-educator and a coach. This is our third conversation as we have become very good friends and in this episode we ask (amongst many other things):
- what would happen if we stopped viewing the situation in education from the lense of 'problem'?
- Can we reform education one powerful conversation at a time?
May-Ling wanted me to clarify two things she said in the podcast - Nikki O'Rourke & Natasha Gossett created this great self-directed project called Curiouser & Co, b...2021-08-151h 00
Freedom to LearnThe 20% Project for SchoolsThis episode is hosted by Derry Hannam and Polly Cheer. They argue that state-funded schools, both primary and secondary, should be encouraged to allocate at least 10% of curriculum time to be negotiated around the interests of the students and staff. This would allow time for individual or collaborative self-directed education, with the teachers being available as facilitators or ‘experts’ if their services were requested by the students. Some links to resources mentioned in the episode:
20% A Modest Proposal
Progressive Education
https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/technology-innovation/staff-2030-future-ready-teaching
Derry’s book: Becoming a Democratic Teacher in a State School
XP Scho...2020-12-0733 min
Freedom to LearnHow to Set Up a Self-Directed Learning CommunityA Q&A discussion hosted by Artemis D. Bear, Founder of The Garden www.thegardenbristol.org, with panelists:
Kezia Cantwell-Wright, Founder and Staff Member at East Kent Sudbury School ekss.org.uk
Ellie Smallcombe, Lead Facilitator and Responsible Individual for Coed Cariad https://www.facebook.com/coedcariad/ and Traed Bach Mwdlyd https://www.facebook.com/traedbachmwdlyd/
Kelly Humphrey, Founder of The Willows https://www.facebook.com/thewillows2019/
Sophie Christophy, Co-Founder and Facilitator at The Cabin https://www.downatthecabin.com
Lucy Hazell, Lead Facilitator and Co-founding Director at Tipi Woods
Rowan Salim, Facilitator and Co-Founding Director at Free We...2020-12-011h 29
Access to Inspiration22. Andrew Scott: how to gain and retain a Michelin starSue Stockdale talks to an award-winning British chef, Andrew Scott about what it takes to achieve and retain a Michelin star. Andrew was inspired to develop his career as a chef by his parents, who both worked in the hospitality industry. After winning a cooking competition at the age of 13, Andrew started working part time as a pot washer in the kitchens of his local hotel. Then following training at college, he was taken on by Simon Haigh at Mallory Court in Warwickshire, England as an apprentice chef.After four years, he then worked under Simon Rogan at...2020-07-2220 min
Lockdown LearningThe Future of EducationOur lockdown learning journey has come to an end with our final episode of our podcast this week, we hope that you’ve enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed making it. We’d like to also say thank you to all our wonderful guests that have given us their time and shared their thoughts with us over the last few months, we couldn’t have done it without you. For our final episode we wanted to look to the future. What will our education systems look like in a post COVID-19 world? As we all rush t...2020-07-1600 minLockdown LearningWhat special needs tell us about schoolsAs alternative educational settings we often hear from parents of children struggling with the mainstream approach to learning. Children who need to move more than the school day allows for, find it hard to focus on work they aren’t interested in or simply learn in different ways than their peers. It’s not surprising that parents look elsewhere for something that suits their child. But yet we can’t help but think that something must be deeply wrong for so many children to find it so hard to thrive in our school system. And that’s the topic of our podc...2020-06-2800 minLockdown LearningPlay, play and more play“Play is really the work of children, play is how they understand the world and how they become adults. The importance of play cannot be overstated” remarked Larry Welshon in last week’s episode about Democratic Education. In Lockdown our children have had more time to get bored and figure out how to spend their time than ever before, and hopefully they’ve spent a large part of it playing. This week we dive deeper into the topic of play with Henry Readhead, Deputy Head at Summerhill School, the oldest children’s democracy in the world. Childr...2020-06-1900 minLockdown LearningDemocratic Education: The Power of a VoteIf, like Alex O’Neill who we spoke to in our last episode, lockdown has caused to you to pause and reconsider what learning looks like for your children you might be wondering what your options are. We’ve talked a lot about home education in this series - as that’s what we’ve all kind of been thrown into - but home education is just one alternative available. This week we delve deeper into one of the alternative school models available - Democratic Education - we asked founders of the schools hosting this podcast Kezi...2020-06-1200 minLockdown LearningMoving Forwards not BackwardsMillions of children around the world will have had a completely different learning experience over the past 12 weeks. For many it will have been a difficult experience missing the company of their friends, unable to play outside and still others may have been living with the virus and helping to care for loved ones. But for many the break from school has been a relief, and has provided the opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to explore their own interests and learn at their own pace. As we heard from Harriet Pattison in episode 3, there are so many ways to...2020-06-0400 minLockdown LearningDeschooling: The Art of Letting GoFinding yourself suddenly without the structure of school you are used to can be liberating for some and scary for others. We all remember the moment we realised we were leaving formal education behind and wondered “what now?” Learning to learn without school is a journey and children will all react to the experience differently, so will their parents. This week we talked to Je’anna Clements founder and staff member of a self-directed learning community in South Africa and asked her about this process of letting go and relearning often referred to as deschooling. What can w...2020-05-2700 minLockdown LearningFrom Teacher to Home EducatorBecoming your child’s teacher overnight can be a daunting challenge, but as your child’s parent you know them better than anyone - you might just have all the qualifications you need after all. Many teachers decide when they have children of their own not to send them to school but to help them learn at home instead. This week we talk to two teachers that chose to leave the mainstream system and ask them how supporting a child at home is different to teaching in a school. If you’d like to know more abou...2020-05-2000 minLockdown LearningMind the gap - How children learn at homeJust how do children learn when not in a classroom? We all know what learning looks like in school - we’ve all been there it’s familiar to us. But not so many grew up home educated or in self-directed schools and the unknown makes us nervous. This week we were incredibly lucky to speak to Harriet Pattison, who has carried out extensive research into how children learn when not in traditional schools. What methods do parents use, what learning styles do children have? Do they all learn at the same pace? ...2020-05-1500 minLockdown LearningManaging Mental Health & Wellbeing in LockdownI don’t know how much more of this I can take! Stuck in the house - or maybe a tiny flat - together, day after day, week after week. Lockdown is starting to feel rather like groundhog day isn’t it. Add to that the anxiety created by a global pandemic and the pressures of working from home and home learning everyone’s mental health is struggling right now. We talked to Dr. Naomi Fisher, a clinical psychologist about what we can do to protect our children’s mental health and well being as well as our...2020-05-0600 min
Alpine Valley School PodcastIntroducing: Lockdown LearningIntroducing a new podcast from Alpine Valley School - Lockdown Learning As COVID-19 swept the globe from east to west this year, so has home education. Millions of children woke up one morning to find their schools closed and their new teachers are their parents. Learning at home can be a wonderfully liberating and connecting experience for families that choose it but it can also be daunting and exhausting even at the best of times. And let’s face it – this is not the best of times. No one planned for this. And whereas Home Education is usua...2020-04-2816 minLockdown LearningHome Education 101So, you’re suddenly homeschooling – what now? The global COVID-19 lockdown happened so fast no one really had time to prepare themselves for it. We’ll be talking to two seasoned home educators, Rachel Jones and Laura Burgess, and try to answer the many questions that are doubtless swirling around in your head. Like what does school at home look like and what if my child doesn’t want to do the work set by their school? Guests: Laura Burgess, a former staff member at Alpine Valley School and longtime homeschooler. Rachel Jones, mum of 4 boys...2020-04-2800 min
Alpine Valley School PodcastFounding Stories: The Open SchoolEpisode 45: Founding Stories - The Open School This is the second part of our special series called Founding Stories, in which we interview founders of other self-directed democratic schools around the world. This episode takes us to sunny California to the two (yes, two) campuses of The Open School. Hear how founder Cassi Clausen’s Master’s Degree in Education led her to the self-directed democratic schooling model. You’ll also learn about the pioneering days of The Open School OC - bet you can’t guess where they held their first day of school! Want mor...2019-11-2511 min
Alpine Valley School PodcastFounding Stories: EKSSEpisode 44: Founding Stories - East Kent Sudbury School This is the first in our series of special episodes called Founding Stories, in which we interview founders of other self-directed democratic schools around the world. On this episode, we chat with Kezia Cantwell-Wright from East Kent Sudbury School in Kent, England. Kezia shares her own family’s personal journey to alternative education, what it took to get their school off the ground, and her advice for starting an alternative school - which may surprise you! Want more? Find out more about East Kent Sudbury Sch...2019-11-1110 min
No Sleep 'til Sudbury with Brent JensenNSTS Episode 010 - Kent BaileyNo Sleep Til Sudbury takes a complete left turn in Episode 10 as my close pal Kent Bailey drops by to give me a tutorial on the history of Hip Hop. Even if he was a suburban white kid, dude knows his stuff. Listen along as Bailey discusses his traumatic introduction to music, his resemblance to Canadian rapper Kish, the Funky Drummer sampling phenomenon, and so much more. He even namechecks a Slayer band member! That's my boy. Bailey's playlist: The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide Slick Rick - I Shouldn't Have Done It MC Lyte - Co...2017-05-2345 min