Glenn Hardaker's List: Home Education

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Home Education is about the individual moulding life into shape, and not vice versa

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Muslim civilisation stretched from southern Spain as far as China. From the 7th century onwards, scholars of many faiths built on the ancient knowledge of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, making breakthroughs that paved the way for the Renaissance.
 
The discoveries made by men and women in Muslim civilisation have left their mark on the way we live today. 1001 Inventions uncovers a thousand years of science and technology that has a huge but hidden impact on the modern world.

Islam: Empire of Faith. Part 2: The Awakening (full; PBS Documentary)

Islam: Empire of Faith. Part 1: Prophet Muhammad and rise of Islam (full; PBS Documentary)

Good resources for muslim homes education

Home schooling is a more natural educational choice for many families who seek alternatives to a fast-paced, treadmill way of life. When families make decisions to live in closer harmony with the earth, to take a more spiritual approach to living, to reduce their contribution to world waste and pollution, and to simplify their daily lives, home schooling often seems the next logical step toward respecting life’s natural rhythms, both in terms of their children’s intellectual development and their day-to-day schedules.

John Dewey is arguably the most influential thinker on education in the twentieth century, Dewey's contribution lies along several fronts. His attention to experience and reflection, democracy and community, and to environments for learning have been seminal.

It is true that informal, sometimes referred to as child-centred education, was supposedly practiced in the so-called permissive 1960s and 1970s, though it had little in common with the kind of informal learning described here (Entwistle, 1970; McKenzie, & Kernig, 1975). Classroom research, in the early 1980s, demonstrated that even this limited kind of informal learning had not really gone beyond the rhetorical (Bennett et al, 1984; Galton, Simon & Kroll, 1980). The only informal learning that does occur in the classroom concerns how to act as a school student, fulfilling institutional and peer-approved roles, what has been called the hidden curriculum.

Many people in the UK do not realise that British home education (known as 'homeschooling' in the USA) is legal, and becoming more popular all the time. Although laws in the four countries of the UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) are not the same, home education is legal in all of them