New book on home education

I am quite sure that readers of this blog will be pleased and excited to learn that they can now pre-order copies of my new book on home education. It can be obtained here;

http://www.trentham-books.co.uk/acatalog/Elective_Home_Education_in_the_UK.html#a9781858564821

It will of course also be available in all good bookshops, but to avoid disappointment, you are strongly urged to reserve your copy now. Demand is expected to be high, especially from local authorities who wish to find out more about this subject. It is of course really aimed at local authority officers who work with home educated children, but I am sure that parents will also find much of interest in it. Trentham Books, as I dare say teachers such as Mrs Anon and Julie are aware, specialise in academic works on education.

When first I began to write this book, I hoped to include an entire chapter in which autonomous educators expressed their views directly to the local authority officers who would be reading it. I tried to get some of the people who come on this blog interested in this idea, but it was pretty plain that all the autonomously educating parents were bitterly opposed to taking such an opportunity to explain their views and opinions to local authorities. I found quite a few people working for local authorities who would have been happy to exchange ideas in this way, but I didn't think it fair to include them and not the parents.

The result is that I have been forced to explain autonomous education myself and try to show teachers and other professionals in the field of education what it is all about. I hope that I have done justice to the practice. Plans are afoot for another book on the same subject, this time a commercial rather than an academic work. If any autonomously educating parents wish to collaborate in this, I would be very glad to hear from them.