SIG Forum Meeting – Alternative Education
Join the Alternative Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...
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Amber Fensham-Smith, Dr
Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at The Open University
Amber is a lecturer in childhood and youth studies at the Open University and co-convenor of the Alternative Education special interest group. A sociologist by training, her research seeks to give voice to marginalised and excluded communities in education. She has a keen pedagogical interest in home-education and the ways in which families are appropriating new technologies and informal learning spaces to envisage or enact education differently. Previous projects have included Gypsy and Traveller education, Photovoice to promote children’s participation in research, and more recently, supporting young activists to conduct their own educational research.
Amber Fensham-Smith's contributions
The future of Alternative Provision: reflections on the opportunities and challenges in a post-pandemic world
Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. The landscape of Alternative Provision (AP) has increasingly diversified and evolved across the four...
The future of Alternative Provision: reflections on the opportunities and challenges
In this interactive seminar, the SIG welcomes Dr Andy Malcolm, Senior Lecturer in the Childhood and Youth Studies (University of Bedfordshire), to share the findings from his recent work on...
Missing grades, missed opportunities? The impact of exam cancellation among elective home education families
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Joanna Merrett discusses the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on elective home education families and her recent research submitted to the UK EHE select...
Within and beyond the mainstream: realising alternative possibilities across educational stages
Online registration has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_AlternativeEducation Online event - pre-registration essential Across the global context of disrupted...
Within and beyond the mainstream realising alternative possibilities across education webinar
Across the global context of disrupted schooling during the pandemic, interest in alternative methods, progressive philosophies, learner participation and engagement have been amplified....
Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field
Within this current context, the term ‘home schooling’ is often deployed in a blanket way to describe what is likely to be a plethora of activities and methods of teaching and learning largely...
Continue reading blog postAlternative Education
The Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’...