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Tag Archives: Curriculum

Saturday Summerhill Take Away # 2 : Why a Meeting?

Saturday Summerhill Take AwayBy Jason PreaterAugust 22, 2020

Summerhill protects your right to be how you want to be. You choose; the Meeting does not. The purpose of the Meeting is to sort out the inevitable boundary disputes in a community of nearly one hundred people who are all trying to live vibrantly individual lives.

5-1 Design A School Optional Lessons

Design A School, Jason, LeonardBy Leonard TurtonDecember 24, 2018Leave a comment

We discuss optional lessons, an essential part of the Democratic Free School engine. Also Reduced Curriculum and Freak Out subjects.

Design A School 4-3: Age Range

Design A School, Jason, LeonardBy Leonard TurtonNovember 21, 2018Leave a comment

The Age Range Train. How many coaches? The most important coach?

Evidence for Openness: 7 ideas

JasonBy Jason PreaterAugust 29, 2018Leave a comment

The open classroom is back. I have my doubts about the phenomenon and want to see some evidence for the effectiveness of the trend.

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Curriculum Matters

Basics, JasonBy Jason PreaterJuly 11, 2018Leave a comment

Talking about the Curriculum in democratic free schools.

Keep it in the Family

Jason, PopularBy Jason PreaterJune 25, 2018Leave a comment

Family and kinship are a part of our mammal nature. How do they relate to our choices in education? Is it right for the state to work against our primal instincts.

The Reduced Curriculum III: Getting it Wrong and Getting it Right

Basics, JasonBy Jason PreaterNovember 13, 2017Leave a comment

Here I talk about my own experiences as the English teacher at Summerhill School and what those experiences meant for my evolving awareness of what a reduced curriculum might be.

The Reduced Curriculum II: Against Bloating

Basics, Jason, LeonardBy Jason PreaterNovember 6, 2017Leave a comment

The second of three posts on the reduced curriculum. Here we look at the phenomenon of bloating in the curriculum: how to avoid it. Create a better curriculum in a free school.

Reducing the Curriculum

LeonardBy Jason PreaterOctober 31, 2017Leave a comment

Introduction to the reduced curriculum in Summerhill-style schools.

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The Reduced Curriculum

Basics, Jason, LeonardBy Jason PreaterOctober 30, 2017Leave a comment

The first in a series of posts about the Reduced Curriculum to help subscribers to Summerhill Democratics think about this important issue in setting up a free school.

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