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Numbers
will normally be limited to 12.
Actual
content will be agreed by negotiation with the organisers but normally
we expect to provide workshops on:
-
The practice of home education. - Drawing on the most up to date research.
- The
law as it relates to home education.
It will
normally run from around 9:30am to 5:30pm.
The conference
pack will include:
- Free
Range Education: The leading book on the subject of home education edited
by Terri Dowty; includes a legal chapter by Ian Dowty
- A
review of the research literature
Speakers:
Mike
Fortune-Wood
- a
long standing home educator undertaking extensive research into home
education for a leading educational charity.
- Owns
and runs "Home Education UK" the UK's largest and oldest independent
website supporting home education and offering advice.
- owns
and runs the foremost European website on home education.
- part
of the lay editorial team that wrote the "Elective Home Educational
Legal guidelines" (EHELG).
- currently
writing books on school refusal and the face of home education in Britain.
Ian Dowty
- a
long standing home educator
-
a solicitor with a specialist practice in home education law who is
well-known and respected in the home education community
-
lectures frequently on home education
-
contributed the legal chapters to Free Range Education and Home Educating
our Autistic Spectrum Children (Paths are made by Walking).
Cost:
- £1,500
- the
LEA will provide: A location for the course, overhead projector and
screen, parking for one vehicle, refreshments and arrangements for lunch.
- LEA's
are free to arrange for colleagues from other establishments to attend,
we would however require an attendance list prior to the conference.
- We
will make arrangements for our transport and accomodation.
For
further details Contact:
Mike
Fortune-Wood
01766
832112
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