Helen E. Lees 
Education without Schools [EPUB ebook] 
Discovering Alternatives

At a time when education and school choices are under increasing scrutiny, this topical book considers education more broadly than ever before. The author, an experienced teacher and researcher, highlights what happens when parents discover that an alternative to school education exists and is legal. This under-researched topic highlights the lack of governmental interest in alternative education and also considers the human rights issues, conflation with safeguarding, the relationship of the state to education and parental education choice. Focusing on the discovery of elective home education (EHE) in England as a case study for new and necessary arguments, the ideas discussed are also relevant internationally. The book considers the global fact of education as not just mainstream schooling, but how the dominance of schooling has affected our ability to conceive of education as diverse and different. This thought-provoking book will appeal to academic, teaching and policy-making audiences.

About the author

Helen E. Lees is Associate Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Theology, York St John University. She has worked as a teacher in a local authority education-outside-of-school unit and a wide variety of mainstream and alternative educational settings, from schools to prisons and hospitals. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of Other Education, the online journal of educational alternatives.