The team behind this website is a body of international educational research scholars who are recipients of mutiple awards and honours in early childhood education who have published many pioneering works in the field of integral education…
Muhahaha… NO! We are NOT!
We are just 2 little rebels. All right – one big rebel and one small rebel!
WHAT KIND OF LEARNING MODEL DO WE ALIGN WITH?
All and none… We are all for the best things each method has, but we refuse to be labelled as to be following any one particular nomenclature. We do the Glenn Doman’s flash cards as a Montessori activity; when the family gathers around, the dining table becomes the Harkness’ table of learning. We roadschool and forest school.
So, our learning model then… Well, we say – to define is to limit.
The list of the things we do is ridiculously long. So, I’ll make the list of things we do not do: we do not do lesson plans, or tests/exams, or report cards. We do not kill the love for learning with such nonsensical idiocies.
Well… if there’s a key word that defines our path – it has got to be FREEDOM. We have the freedom:
- to choose the “classroom” of the day: a farm, our terrace or the tree top
- to socialise with people of all ages
- to eat whenever we want to
- to use bathroom whenever we need to
- to explore our own interests and talents
- to take field trips or travel whenever we want
- to refuse state mandated curriculum
- to think outside the box. Or in it. We have a choice.
- to delight-directed learning
- to choose the teacher of the day (David Attenborough or SuperWings Jet)
- to explore a topic as much or less as we want
- and a hundred or so MORE!
Join the bandwagon!
As long as you believe in integral education and are curious to explore the gazillion ways to do it… WELCOME!
But mind you, we are not going to be super serious about it.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MAJOR FUN DOING IT!
REV UP FOR THE REVOLUTION!
As D.H. Lawrence begged a year before he died (1929) we are going to make a revolution for fun!
Not driven by money, political/religious agendas, we are just going to upset the apple-cart and see which way the apples would go a-rolling!
