Are you looking for information about homeschooling or home education in The Netherlands? Will you move here and would you like to continue homeschooling?
You are welcome to join the English language mailinglist about home education in The Netherlands for contact, support and information.
Basic information on Dutch law and home education can be found at www.thuisonderwijs.nl/english.
In just three more weeks the Home Education Thuisonderwijs Festival, HeTof 2010, will be held again in The Netherlands.
The programme for the HeTof 2010 is all organised. Have a look at the programme to see who’s giving a talk and what workshops have been organised.
Please register as soon as you can, before Wednesday 12 May, via one of the websites below.
www.hetof.nl (Nederlands)
www.hetof.eu (Deutsch)
www.hetof.com (English)
The NVvTO (The Netherlands Home Education Association) will present itself Friday morning at the festival. Paying members of the NVvTO can get a 5 euro discount at the HeTof.
The presentation on “Educational Objectives in School and Home Education” by Henk Blok and most parts of the following discussion can be listened to at:
Vrijheid en gebondenheid: twee wegen naar dezelfde doelen?
Samenvatting van de presentatie door Henk Blok, 24 mei 2008 (PDF)
De presentatie en discussie zijn ook te beluisteren in het Engels.
The paper of the speech by Christian Beck of May 25 is now available at his website:
The Decline of Modern Schooling and the Emergence of a New Civic Sector of Education
Abstract:
Pisa (2006) shows positive correlation between economical development and learning results in OECD-countries. But specially USA and Norway with highest gross national product per capita (GPC) and highly developed school systems have bad pisa results. Modern schools seem to have passed the peak. Still, more school is tried, to overcome the decline. Alternatives to school like home education, open free schools, unschooling, informal education etc. are not only a human right for minorities, but could be necessary experiments for future education, in general. The emergence of a new civic sector of modern education will be discussed.
Audio:
The presentation by Christian Beck and the following discussion can be listened to at:
http://home-education.podomatic.com/
(EDITED August 11: added audio link)
