Alternative education and homeschool related podcasts & blogs
PODCASTS (links open in Spotify)
- HEFA Home Education For All (HEFA) is a group of experienced home educators providing support to all home educators in the UK. They have episodes on many aspects of home ed.
- Rogue Learner In this podcast, they explore ways to ignite our children’s curiosity and passion for learning through interviews with experts and families who have experienced first-hand the advantages of pursuing self-directed education.
- Life Without School Podcast is by popular H.E. blogger 'Stark Raving Dad'.
- Home Education Matters Podcasts on subjects like deregistering and dealing with your local authority, how to sit exams, supporting your child’s unique needs, socialising, subject deep dives, and much more.
- Home Educating Wildlings This podcast shines a light on the no-school life choice and is here to encourage you on your home ed journey.
- Twinkl Home Educators Podcast A podcast featuring episodes on a variety of aspects of Home Education with special guests.
- The Unschool Space Esther Jones, a mindful parenting coach and unschooling mother of three, takes a look at the many opportunities for reflection that naturally arise in an unschooling home.
- Exploring Unschooling Explore unschooling with Pam Laricchia, Anna Brown, and Erika Ellis.
- How to build a school Ollie Briggs is the founder and Director of Learning at Arts Education Exchange. He asks what are the problems with schools today? Is creative learning and the arts a solution? and how can we think about school differently?
- Unschooling Conversations Heidi Steel and guests, discussing life and learning from an Unschooling perspective.
- SEND Parenting Podcast Neurodiverse host, Dr Olivia Kessel, navigates SEND in a UK education system.
- Listen on Facebook: Naomi Fisher on self-directed education Naomi Fisher talks about self-directed education.
BLOGS
- Time is Precious: A great blog post by 'Monkey Mum' that works out how much time is spent actually ‘learning’ stuff in school.
- Stark Raving Dad Blog: Notes from a life without school.
- Naomi Fisher is a clinical psychologist and author of 'Changing Our Minds'. She writes about self-directed education, trauma, autism and imagines a better way to learn.
- NeuroWild: Facebook blog by autistic and ADHD speech pathologist, illustrator, advocate, and Mum to 3 ND kiddos.
- Missing the mark: Bestselling author & illustrator. Education + autism + childhood + learning + activist + advocacy.
- Ross Mountney's Blog: Home education, parenting, children and family.
- Green Parent Post: Annette Gallagher writes on creating moments of calm, inside the moments of chaos in her family's home educating life.
- Raising Revolutionaries writes about making home education work for you.
- An adventurous education: A home educating, adventuring and worldschooling family of four.
