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		<title>CPE-PEN Flexischooling Learning Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  FLEXISCHOOLING ‘rigid systems produce rigid people, flexible systems produce flexible people’ Dr Roland Meighan  CPE-PEN Presents a Flexischooling Learning Exchange Saturday 28th April 2012, Loughborough Flexischooling has been around in the UK from the late 1980s. But what is it? What does it mean? What could it be? Advocates would argue it has huge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/02/06/cpe-pen-flexischooling-learning-exchange/</link>
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		<title>CfL: New Policy Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Campaign for Learning launches today its new weekly policy blog &#8216;For Learning&#8217;, which you can find at www.campaignforlearning.blogspot.com &#8216;For Learning&#8217; will feature ideas, reflections and comments on learning policy, with the intention of stimulating discussion and generating new thinking on policies linked to education, skills and learning. Readers will be able to comment on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/cfl-new-policy-blog/</link>
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		<title>Udacity &#8211; online classes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News from THE CHRONICLE of Higher Education&#8230; Wired Campus.   Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up January 23, 2012, 4:53 pm By Nick DeSantis The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial-intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his teaching position to aim for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/udacity-online-classes/</link>
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		<title>Terrorism and Our Children &#8212; Some Advice from Margaret Mead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Thank you to Professor Edith King for this article.   Terrorism and Our Children &#8212; Some Advice from Margaret Mead  Edith W. King, Professor  Margaret Mead, Anthropologist  The examination of culture is the primary concern of anthropologists and sociologists. The anthropologist, more than the sociologist, is aware of the range of cultures—from the simple, and so-called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/terrorism-and-our-children-some-advice-from-margaret-mead/</link>
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		<title>elearningeuropa.info Jan 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New competition in informal learning. After leading a successful competition for social media use in formal language teaching contexts, the EU-funded network ‘Language Learning and Social Media – 6 Key Dialogues’ (LS6 network) is pleased to announce the launch of another competition: Social media in informal language learning and use. This competition aims to document [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/e-learning-europa/</link>
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		<title>IDEC 2012 Puerto Rico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Human. Powerful. Relevant. Transformative.]      Regístrate aquí para recibir el boletín de IDEC en español. Friends:        See below for an important registration update.  This week we are excited to bring you an interview with Scott Nine, executive director of the Institute for Democratic Education in America who eloquently details the importance of IDEC 2012 to Puerto Rico and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/idec-2012-puerto-rico/</link>
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		<title>OpenEye January Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Items from the OpenEye January 2012 Update   THE GOVERNMENT&#8217;S RESPONSE TO THE EYFS CONSULTATION   We were astonished to see that the government&#8217;s response, far from being sensitive to the items so clearly highlighted by the Tickell consultation, was then so poorly and inadequately thought through. The additional one month&#8217;s further consultation announced by Minister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/openeye-january-update/</link>
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		<title>Journal for Co-operative Studies Special Education Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Maureen Breeze for the following&#8230; Good to see this education  special edition  from the Journal of Co-operative Studies. http://www.co-opstudies.org/Journal.htm Available in hard copy and online through the on-line service ingentaconnect &#8211; http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ukscos/jcs, The special edition of the Journal for Co-operative Studies will be of interest to academics, educationalists, co-operators and anyone involved in co-operation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/31/journal-for-co-operative-studies-special-education-edition/</link>
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		<title>Flexischooling from ad hoc to tip of an iceberg?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve reported many times on the growing number of flexischooling initiatives.  The concept originated with our own leading light Dr Roland Meighan  http://edheretics.gn.apc.org/ http://www.rolandmeighan.co.uk/ and discussions held with  John Holt on his final visit to this country in 1984 before his untimely death from cancer. In 1988 Roland wrote the book ‘Flexischooling. Education for tomorrow, starting yesterday&#8217;. One of earliest examples of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/13/flexischooling-from-ad-hoc-to-tip-of-an-iceberg/</link>
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		<title>Don Glines: New Book.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  At CPE-PEN we&#8217;re always delighted to support the work of Don Glines. He&#8217;s delivered a blockbuster here. Don has successfully got to grips with personalisation across the pond. A review from us will follow shortly but this will surely whet the appetite. Declaring War Against Schooling documents 100 years of educational wars between Visionary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/1621/</link>
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		<title>Flexischool Places available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fancy a flexischool arrangement with your youngsters? Four opportunities have arisen below. The flexischooling concept is one of  CPE-PEN&#8217;s primary foci at the moment. There is great interest. We are working closely with Alison Sauer at Sauer-Consultancy. Alison is doing amazing work across the country and working in close contact with the DFE.Flexischooling emerged with the work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/flexischool-places-available/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Learning Conference and Free Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth having a good look at the elements of this conference&#8230; presenters, topics etc. Its likely to be a very interesting event all round. I guess we ought to be delighted that educational thinking in some quarters is shifting. Is it radical enough? Does it have a coherent vision? Is it really built on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/1618/</link>
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		<title>Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New book from Charles Leadbeater&#8230; Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World. This is a &#8216;head up&#8217; on the book. Charles Leadbeater is always a good, challenging read and worthy of our attention. We hope to have a review in due course. In Europe the proportion of children attending school went from about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/innovation-in-education-lessons-from-pioneers-around-the-world/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Purpose of Education: A Need for an Extensive Public Debate&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our good friend Dr Tim Rudd has been stirring up public and political eductaional debate for some time.  To kick off 2012 he&#8217;s attempting to get 100,000 signatures on the following e-petition. I doubt that anyone in the CPE-PEN networks would dissent from Tim&#8217;s petition so I urge you to take the time out to support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/the-purpose-of-education-a-need-for-an-extensive-public-debate/</link>
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		<title>Ed Yourself &#8211; January 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With great thanks to Fiona Nicholson for news from the Home Education world. Ongoing:Local Authority Support with Finding Exam Centre 85% of local authorities have now sent information about home educated children taking exams. Click here for an overview of what local authorities are doinghttp://edyourself.org/articles/examcentresurvey2011.php#overview State schools do not generally accept young people to sit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/ed-yourself-january-2012/</link>
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		<title>IALA International Association for Learning Alternatives: Winter News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from IALA&#8217;s winter news Institute for Democratic Education in America by Wayne JenningsA fairly new organization the, Institute for Democratic Education in America identifies critical areas for learning that “equip every human being to participate fully in a healthy democracy.” Their website urges reinventing education strategically, collaboratively, and sustainably. It offers examples, links, definitions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/iala-international-association-for-learning-alternatives-winter-news/</link>
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		<title>TIDE: Teachers In Development Education. January Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can honestly say I probably learned more about learning and teaching with my career long association with the Development Education Centre (Birmingham) now TIDE &#8211; (Teachers in Development Education). Nothing inspired my teaching and learners like the issues and content I drew in from colleagues, teachers and resources involved in TIDE. Things are very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2012/01/12/tide-teachers-in-development-education-january-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Narratives from the Nursery: Negotiating Professional Identities in Early Childhood.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear all,  We will be holding a book launch for Jayne Osgood&#8217;s new book: Narratives from the Nursery: Negotiating Professional Identities in Early Childhood.  The book launch will take place on Monday 5th December, 5-7 pm in Room T1-20, Tower Building, London Metropolitan University. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to me, Angela [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/30/narratives-from-the-nursery-negotiating-professional-identities-in-early-childhood/</link>
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		<title>AERO E-news 25.11.2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from Aero&#8217;s newsletter 25.11.2011 Dear friends of AERO, Last Sunday we did a very successful first Internet radio show based on our current school starter&#8217;s class. We&#8217;re doing another show on Sunday the 27th at 6PM again. Click here to listen to the last one and to listen to this one live on Sunday. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/30/aero-e-news-25-11-2011/</link>
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		<title>Children, Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation promoting and researching participation, inclusion and empowerment First announcement and Call for Papers for an International Conference: Children, Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation (5th-7th September, 2012) The University of Central Lancashire is proud to host the second international conference of the International Childhood and Youth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/30/children-young-people-and-adults-extending-the-conversation/</link>
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		<title>Slippin’: Reflections on Participation at the Margins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation promoting and researching participation, inclusion and empowerment  CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOCIETY Seminar Series 2011-12   Tuesday December 6th, 4-6pm, HA338  Slippin’: Reflections on Participation at the Margins  Simon Newitt This seminar will consider the applicability of participatory theory with very socially excluded young people. Slippin’: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/30/slippin%e2%80%99-reflections-on-participation-at-the-margins/</link>
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		<title>Futurelab Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Futurelab resources                                   Computer games and learning handbook Aimed at teachers and those interested in using games with an educational intent, this handbook aims to provide some useful anchoring points for educators to make sense of the area and to develop practical approaches for the use of computer games as a medium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/30/futurelab-resources/</link>
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		<title>TED  Talks Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It&#8217;s not simply &#8220;emotion on the right, reason on the left,&#8221; but something far more complex and interesting. A Best of the Web talk from RSA Animate. http://tinyurl.com/6xx89cc]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/30/ted-talks-iain-mcgilchrist-the-divided-brain/</link>
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		<title>FAMILY LIVES TRUANCY NEWS RELEASE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We at CPE-PEN may want to stress a whole range of issues about &#8216;compulsory school attendance&#8217; but its worth just reading some of the facts in this news release. It really does scream out that there is something devastatingly wrong and that young lives and families are being hit.  Family Lives report highlights growing levels of concern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/28/family-lives-truancy-news-release/</link>
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		<title>Chris Shute &#8211; What&#8217;s the use of homework?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ What’s the use of Homework?2  Chris may be less mobile than he used to be but nothing has stopped the flow of his thoughts and ideas. Here he tackles that controversial schooling issue &#8211; homework. What is the educational rationale behind giving children who have already spent the best part of five hours in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2011/11/28/chris-shute-whats-the-use-of-homework/</link>
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