Educational Freedom is a non-profit organisation providing Home Education information and support. Our primary purpose is ensuring all Home Educators have access to FREE information and support. We aim to provide everything you could ever need to know about Home Education.
A great way of ensuring your Home Education journey goes smoothly is to read all of this website. The menu at the top will help you navigate each section.
Making the decision to Home Educate can be daunting. But be assured that there is plenty of support out there! There are lots of families that have been in your situation, and we have supported tens of thousands of them.
Read through all of our website to learn all about Home Education. Use the menu to navigate through all of our pages especially the WHAT TO DO FIRST page for your country. Navigating through each page in turn really will help you understand everything you need to do. Then move on to the dealing with the LA section.
PLEASE NOTE: MOST PAGES SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A STAND ALONE PAGE, ENSURE YOU READ THE INFO IN OTHER MENTIONED PAGES TOO.
Here’s a sneak peak at our FB page feed where we share factual info as well as fun memes. Drop us a like, a follow and come chat to other Home Educators.
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” At its heart, education is not about filling minds with information, but about creating the conditions in which curiosity can flourish. When we see teaching as assisting discovery, the role of the educator shifts. We move from delivering answers to asking better questions; from directing every step to observing, listening, and responding. Learning becomes something the child actively does, not something that is done to them. This approach honours the natural drive children have to explore, experiment, and make meaning of the world around them. It recognises that understanding gained through discovery is deeper, more resilient, and more personal than information simply received. In home education especially, we are uniquely placed to practise this art. We can follow interests as they emerge, allow time for ideas to unfold, and trust that learning does not always look linear or tidy. Our role is to support, scaffold when needed, and step back when discovery is doing its work. Teaching, then, becomes less about control and more about connection. Less about outcomes, and more about the process of becoming a learner
An ex home ed kid, now adult, Andrew, is going to be contributing to our blog part of the website, here's his first article about rewilding - how getting back to basics is an important part of home education. https://educationalfreedom.org.uk/rewilding-education-rediscovering-the-natural-blueprint-for-learning-through-home-education/
A New Year Brings New Home Education Challenges As we begin a new year, we know that home education continues to present both opportunities and challenges. We would love to hear from you. What home education–related content would you like to see across our group, website, and public page over the coming year? Your ideas and feedback will help shape what we share and support in the months ahead. Visit us at www.educationalfreedom.org.uk
We have many decades of hands on Home Education experience between us and many years as a professional support service.
Our team is made up of people from all walks of life, and all styles of Home Education.
We never have, nor will we ever, charge Home Educators a fee to access our website, personal support or anything else.
However, we do have costs such as web hosting, so feel free to donate.
Our aim is that our website contains everything you should need to know.
Beyond that we have a Facebook Page where you can connect with other Home Educators and our amazing admin team. We also have the option to contact us, for those times where you don’t have Facebook.
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