World Heutagogy Day – Home Learning

Tuesday 26th September 2023

This is a quick blog post to initiate this years World Heutagogy Day about Home Learning, inspired by Marlena Wolford and her son Oscar (and their friends) who wish to set up a home learning programme so that they children do not have to go to secondary school in South East London, where we all live.

As is customary we will be asking up to 20 interested parties to describe, in just 50 words, how they would make home learning work for children of secondary school age

Some more information about World Heutagogy Day which this blog has been supporting and the ideas that we we have been sharing and collating since 26th September 2013, can be found in this summary set of slides below. As you can see from the picture World Heutagogy Day celebrates annually the publication of the Bloomsbury book Self-Determined Learning edited by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon.

World Heutagogy Day 2019 & 2020 from London Knowledge Lab

We welcome contributions from everyone; What do you think we need to do to make home learning work? (please post as a comment, in 50 words please, below) ALSO If you have experience, comments, thoughts or useful links, please add them in the comments section. We will pull all contributions together for World Heutagogy Day and, hopefully, use them.

Fred Garnett’s 50 words;

Home-learning needs to be learner-centred, enabling personal curiosity to lead our learning.

My librarian Mum helped me discover long-form reading, my father guided me through complex mathematics giving me a craft of learning

We need to build out from individual learner interests to identify various learning opportunities in multiple contexts.”

Fred Garnett 6th September 2023

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