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HESFES Home Education Conference
The HESFES Home Education Conference is included in the ticket price and held over six of the days.It takes place it's own large marquee with stage, PA and seating.It includes lectures, question and answer sessions on legal and other HE issues as well as discussions and interactive workshops.
Plus experts and speakers from all over the world.There will also be lots of information, contacts and books available.HESFES 2010
Home Education Conference
The HESFES Home Education Conference for many years was the only annual home education conference in Europe.
It includes lectures, Q and A sessions and interactive workshops. HE parents will facilitate the workshops with a special interest in the issue or special knowledge of the area. There will also be information available.
There will also be two evening events beginning at 9pm: Monday we will be showing The Wave.
Look out for notices of the other evening events in the marquee
SUNDAY
2-5pm
Legal Issues about Home Education and the Children’s Schools and Families Bill
Once again we are very pleased and honoured to have speaking,Ian Dowty, an experienced solicitor in home education issues. There will also be an open mike session for Ian to address any specific questions from the audience.
MONDAY
2pm-3.30
Helen Lees: The discovery of home education as revolution
Most people think about education and the first thought that comes to their mind is 'schools' and 'schooling'. With this assumption comes a worldview that is dominant and wrong-headed in that it excludes all other possibilities. Home education and educators simply by having discovered another way to do things, challenge this world-view and this dominance on a number of levels. In some regards they benefit from their difference and in other regards they pay a price. I will be talking about how education is spilt into different worlds according to the type of education followed and how this affects communication between the 'worlds' as well as creates exciting and important new forms of life and living.
Helen Lees is currently finishing a PhD at the University of Birmingham on what happens to the self of adults when they discover the possibility and possibilities of elective home education. She hopes to continue to write and research on home education, as well as all the other fascinating and significant forms of pedagogies available as alternatives to the present mainstream.
4-5pm
Workshops
1. Continuing discussion from the main speakers
2. General Issues in Home Education
This workshop is an open forum to address any issues or questions you may have about home education led by a long term home educating.
TUESDAY
2-3.30pm
Learning Unlimited
Learning Unlimited was founded at the HES FES Conference 2002 with the dual objectives of supporting any home educator throughout Europe
and promoting autonomous education. See www.learning-unlimited.org
Sorina Oprean
Launch of book about HE in Spanish and victories in Spanish Law for home education
Discussion
How can Home educators throughout Europe support each other more and what can we learn from each other?
How can we hold off the encroaching EU bureaucracy?
Throughout the day we will be making origami peace Cranes to send to German HE groups to pass on to their government in an effort to remind them of the need to legalise HE in Germany.
4-5pm
Launch of David Gribble’s new Book
Children Don't Start Wars
With Emily Johns
Children don't Start Wars demonstrates the way our capacity for empathy develops as we grow up and declines as we grow older, and discusses the implications of this development and decline.
WEDNESDAY
2-5pm
Government Plans: What Happened?
What can we learn from the struggle against the Badman review and Children? Schools and Family Bill 2009-2010? We will attempt to unpack such issues as the use of parliamentary procedure, politics and hidden agendas, what types of organisation what worked best, how to use the Press and more....
Even if you feel you didn’t do anything or don’t know much about this please come and join us.
THURSDAY
2-5pm
Government Plans: What next?
How shall we go forward? Given the experience of fighting The Badman Review and the CSF Bill how can we be ready for the next onslaught or have we been found and now need to fight for a positive home education law? What are our tactics and long term strategy?Grassroots? Parliamentary Level? EU level?
Please join us even if you don’t want to come to both days.
FRIDAY
2-5pm
A British Home Education Legal Defence Fund.
Do we need it and what would it look like?
Session One: Given the attack on home education from central government is there a need for legal protection of home education in England and Wales? This session explores whether we need some sort of national legal support organisation in place for home educating families today and moving into the future. What would it look like?
Session Two: How do we go about putting something in place that will aid families in their right to freely educate their children at home? This session is an active workshop where participants will be invited to share thoughts and ideas around supporting families in their choice to home educate.
The Co-ordinator:
Craig Koetsier is married to Cathy. Their five children (ages 8 to 20) have all been educated at home. Craig is passionate about home education, and sees a need to protect this valid educational alternative in society. He is persuaded on a personal level as a husband and father to play an active role in securing safe home education for his family.
HESFES would like to thank the HESFES HE Conference organiser Leslie Barson and all the speakers and workshop leaders for their valued contribution to the conference.
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