An increasing number of parents have the feeling that traditional schooling does not nurture their children in the best possible way; and most of us know that a national education monopoly can collide with individual interests. Power corrupts purpose.
Erich Fromm once said, that our quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning, and so we choose conformity and put our children against our better feeling through industrial education systems. However, we have the strong believe, that tapping into the full potential of each individual does serve society at large in the best possible way.
In particular families in a third culture setting and families who consider themselves rather cosmopolites than national subjects, have quite specialized requirements for their children, e.g. in terms of language capabilities or multiple intelligence nurturing.
Home schooling is a possible alternative to traditional education, which could provide the flexibility to accommodate such needs. It has though one very obvious downside in particular during the primary years: social interaction with children of similar age. The advantages of a highly flexible curriculum must therefore be put against the risk of emotional isolation and the danger of suffering a setback in the development of social skills.
We are a group of parents who find themselves in such a situation and think intensively about home schooling as a viable alternative or supplement to either expensive international schools with modern, but fuzzy curricula or affordable local schools without any flexibility in their class structure and syllabi.
HOMEGROWN is an initiative by and for like minded parents to induce a pragmatic education change which rest on the 2x3 pillars of children, parents and teachers and time, space and attitude.
We meet once a month to strengthen our network and discuss ideas. We publish our thoughts around education in the believe that other families profit thereof. Our mid term objective for Shanghai is the formation of a firm parents’ network that enables families to implement home schooling as substitute of or supplement to traditional curricula by fall 2019.
Courses for parents and teachers alike start in March 2019. For more information scan below QR code
Erich Fromm once said, that our quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning, and so we choose conformity and put our children against our better feeling through industrial education systems. However, we have the strong believe, that tapping into the full potential of each individual does serve society at large in the best possible way.
In particular families in a third culture setting and families who consider themselves rather cosmopolites than national subjects, have quite specialized requirements for their children, e.g. in terms of language capabilities or multiple intelligence nurturing.
Home schooling is a possible alternative to traditional education, which could provide the flexibility to accommodate such needs. It has though one very obvious downside in particular during the primary years: social interaction with children of similar age. The advantages of a highly flexible curriculum must therefore be put against the risk of emotional isolation and the danger of suffering a setback in the development of social skills.
We are a group of parents who find themselves in such a situation and think intensively about home schooling as a viable alternative or supplement to either expensive international schools with modern, but fuzzy curricula or affordable local schools without any flexibility in their class structure and syllabi.
HOMEGROWN is an initiative by and for like minded parents to induce a pragmatic education change which rest on the 2x3 pillars of children, parents and teachers and time, space and attitude.
We meet once a month to strengthen our network and discuss ideas. We publish our thoughts around education in the believe that other families profit thereof. Our mid term objective for Shanghai is the formation of a firm parents’ network that enables families to implement home schooling as substitute of or supplement to traditional curricula by fall 2019.
Courses for parents and teachers alike start in March 2019. For more information scan below QR code
