Quelques
autres "rubriques", parmi beaucoup d'autres, toujours d'actualité
:
les rapports
parents-profs, la maternelle
à 2 ans, l'ennui
à l'école, les punitions
collectives, le téléphone
portable,
l'état des
toilettes,
le créationnisme...
LES "MODÈLES"
ANGLO-SAXONS :
(libertés, justice,
système scolaire, éducatif, marché de l'éducation,
homeschooling...aux USA et en Angleterre)
AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Combien d'enfants homeschooling
en Grande Bretagne aujourd'hui ?
"Nobody
knows how many."
Après de multiples constats
d'enfants livrés à eux-mêmes sous couvert de home
schooling, le ministère de l'éducation "envisage" ...
depuis un certain temps, de rendre obligatoires la déclaration,
voire l'autorisation... et des contrôles plus réguliers.
(*) La déclaration
n'étant pas obligatoire, nul ne sait exactement combien d'enfants
sont concernés, et les chiffres les plus fantaisistes circulent
:
Home schooling numbers uncertainGrande-Bretagne :
Home-educated children do not have to follow the national curriculum
An attempt to find out how many children in England are being educated at home suggests the number might range between 7,400 and 34,400.
/.../These latest figures for the number of children being taught at home are considerably lower than an often-quoted figure of 150,000 home-educated children.
«tolérance zéro» et conditions de détention
intolérables.
Plus
de dix mille jeunes délinquants britanniques sont emprisonnés.
«Le
bilan du Royaume-Uni en terme d'emprisonnement des enfants est l'un des
pires qui se puisse trouver en Europe.»
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Le "modèle" anglo-saxon, libéral ... et blairo-socialiste... En
Grande Bretagne, modèle, patrie, phare, Paradise, Eden,
leader
du home schooling en Europe,
One in four parents
who home-educate children
according to inspectors, prompting
calls for a change in the law."
provides little or no teaching. "AS MANY as 35,000 "home-schooled" children in England are not receiving even a basic education from their parents,
Beuark.
AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... |
Grande-Bretagne :
L'auteur (*) ancien banquier de la City, puis "journaliste" (Financial Times, the Far Eastern Economic Review...) tient à faire savoir dans une tribune du Times que l'école n'est pas obligatoire, et que les enfants sont mieux éduqués-instruits "à la maison"... Après avoir
énumèré les poncifs de l'argumentaire pro-homeschooling
(le droit - et l'Amour - des parents, les incroyables capacités
de l'enfant, et son enthousiasme, à apprendre en dehors de l'école,
la socialisation sans problème du tout, les dangers de certaines
matières enseignées à l'école...)
(*)
About James Bartholomew
L'Instruction En Famille n'est pas forcément une idée si géniale Dans le même numéro du Times, la rubrique éducation ("School Gate") modère quelque peu l'enthousiasme de ce plaidoyer en rappelant quelques évidences, osant même parler d'inconvénients de la formule, limités à 9 : 1 - la fameuse "socialisation".
Pas
de problème, disent toujours les parents de homeschoolers.
2 - la capacité de l'enfant à écouter, à apprendre des adultes très variés y compris ceux qu'ils ne fréquentent pas en famille ? 3 - le temps, la disponibilité, et les capacités, financières, nécessaires. 4 - le prix (des voyages, des livres, du matériel...) 5 - vos compétences, en matière d'enseignement, de certains sujets 6 - la nécessité d'expliquer, de justifier ce que vous faites 7 - et si votre enfant veut retourner à l'école ? 8 - l'amour est une chose. Les compétences, la patience pour enseigner, autre chose. 9 - l'ambigüité de vos relations
avec votre enfant : parent-et-enseignant
Down wiv school: children are best educated at home This week need not be back-to-school week. Parents as well as their kids can benefit from home education It is back-to-school this week. All over the country, stressed parents made last-minute dashes to the shops to force children to try on clumpy school shoes. Then they got up early, hurried their children into cars or on to buses, got stuck in jams, arrived later than intended and said a rushed goodbye. Then they found that the children had gone. Relief may have been mixed with melancholy, loss and a hope that the children were all right behind those high windows, told what to do by strangers. The return to school is a well-established part of the journey of life. It seems normal, right and inevitable. But actually it is none of these things. Yes, it is normal in the early 21st century. But if modern civilisation started about 10,000 years ago, this way of treating children has been “normal” only for the last 2 per cent of the time. It is a new, artificial construct designed to provide education at low cost. It certainly was not created to provide a pleasant or socialising experience for children. Schools are not clearly “right”, either. People tend to think that what everyone does and what they themselves experienced must be right. But there is nothing obviously ideal about delivering your children to other people who do not love them as you do, and who are likely to teach them things with which you may disagree. And sending children to school is not inevitable. Under the law, children must be educated. But they do not have to be educated at a school. There is another way. Background
Home education
is not for everyone - not even a large minority. It is a luxury in most
cases. The parent who becomes a home teacher earns no money. There have
to be savings, or partners, husbands or wives must be willing to pay the
bills. But lots of well-educated wives do not work and could save money
by home educating. For those who can find a way, home-educating is a glorious,
liberating, empowering, profoundly fulfilling thing to do. Far more people
should try it. At present it is estimated that about 50,000 children are
taught this way. The number has jumped from a decade ago but is still very
few compared with America.
* What homeschooling taught me * Is home-schooling a wise move for children? * Education: Answer the question: Home tuition is one answer if you have a problem school * In order to keep the faith, these parents want their children to learn some home truths I have just finished two years of teaching my younger daughter, Alex, now 11. We have become very close. Many fathers see their children at supper time and a bit more at weekends. Alex and I were with each other all day, every weekday, in all sorts of places and circumstances. We knew and shared thoughts, ideas and feelings. I believe the closeness that we developed will benefit our relationship for the rest of our lives. We had enjoyable educational trips to France, Italy and China. Instead of learning about the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius from a text book, Alex and I climbed up to the rim and peered into the still-smoking crater. We visited Pompeii and Oplontis to see the parts of Roman civilisation that had been preserved by the most famous of its eruptions. One of the beauties of home education is that you can teach children things that you want them to know - some of which are not taught in most schools. I wanted Alex to know something of the origin of the Universe, and astronomy. We studied far more history than schools do, including overviews of Rome, China and Britain. We looked at the Second World War, using DVDs of the superb Channel 4 series on it. We started learning Italian. But all parents would have different ideas of what they want their children to know. You can go for whatever you think important. This is freedom, thrilling freedom. You don't have to teach just what some civil servant in Whitehall has lighted upon and stuck in the national curriculum. It is strange that children all over the country study the same bits of history - all knowing certain periods and hardly studying outside them. It verges on the totalitarian. With home education, there can be enormous diversity. At the same time, there is nothing to stop one's child taking the same GCSEs and Alevels that others are taking. But some of the greatest gains from home education are not easily measured or tested. They come from the daily flow of conversation - the times when your child asks you a question and a conversation follows. You may make an observation, or your child may see something and become interested in it. If that happens, you can encourage the interest. This is developing the ability to think and discuss. It is a big contrast with what happens at school where it is impossible in a class of 25 to chase the individual interests of everyone present or to enter separate conversations. It may even be the case that schools can damage a child's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning. I have seen children totally turned off education and making no attempt to hide how bored they are. The widespread concern is that a home-educated child misses out on “socialisation”. But I have never heard anyone offer any evidence for this. As far as I know, the evidence from America is rather the other way - home-educated children are better socialised. We know that young children left in inferior nurseries and not given much attention can get withdrawn or aggressive. It is possible, to put it no higher, that being left at school and not given much attention can, in some cases, have a similar, if milder, damaging effect on older children. You don't have to educate a child for all his or her years of learning. It could be for just one or two. Several teachers have told me that they would love to take their children on a round-the-world journey, perhaps when their offspring are aged somewhere between 11 and 14. I would recommend it. Home education, however you structure it, can bring you and your child closer together. You can both learn. You will have shared experiences that will enrich your relationship for ever. Yes, there will also be arguments and tears. But children and parents who never experience it are missing out badly. James Bartholomew
is the author of The Welfare State We're In ( nov. 2004)
Why homeschooling might not be such a great idea ![]() There are a huge number of blogs on this very subject, including Carlotta's and Homeschool CPA. Many offer tips and advice to help you start homeschooling your own child. But despite the very strong feelings on this subject, we thought it might be wise to flag up some of the disadvantages of homeschooling your child - for them and for you. 1) Social issues
2) A child's ability to get used to being taught, and to listen,
to a variety of other adults
3) Demands on your time
4) The cost
5) The knowledge you may lack.
6) The constant explanations of why you do it
7) Your reasons for continuing if your children don't want to
8) Your own teaching skills and patience
9) The extra stress and pressure when it comes to your relationship
with your child
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Présentation
| SOMMAIRE
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| Le
nouveau sirop-typhon : déplacements de populations ? chèque-éducation
? ou non-scolarisation ? |
| Pluralisme
scolaire et "éducation alternative" | Jaune
devant, marron derrière : du PQ pour le Q.I. |
| Le
lycée "expérimental" de Saint-Nazaire |
Le
collège-lycée "expérimental" de Caen-Hérouville|
| L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation | Freinet
dans (?) le système "éducatif" (?) |
| Changer
l'école | Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop !|
L'école
Vitruve |
| Colloque
Freinet à ... Londres | Des
écoles publiques "expérimentales" |
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- 98 : les 30 P-l-eureuses | Et
l'horreur éducative ? |