Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education

Helen E Lees is Lecturer in Education Studies at Newman University, UK and founding Editor-in-Chief of Other Education – The Journal of Educational Alternatives. Her latest monograph is Education Without Schools - Discovering Alternatives (Policy Press, 2014). Nel Noddings is Jacks Professor Emeriti of Child Education at Stanford University, USA. She is a highly published, globally renowned philosopher of feminism, education and care.

• Introduction; Nel Noddings.- This Handbook; Helen E Lees.- Section 1: Thinking Differently.- Chapter 1: The Mind of the Educator; Kris De Meyer; Chapter 2: an ordinary day; Philipp Klaus.- Chapter 3: Mother Nature’s Pedagogy: How Children Educate Themselves; Peter Gray.- Chapter 4: Using the Future in Education: Creating Space for Openness, Hope and Novelty; Keri Facer.- Chapter 5: Promise and Peril of Neuroscience for Alternative Education; Clarence W. Joldersma.- Chapter 6: What Might Have Been: Women’s Traditional Interests; Nel Noddings.- Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis and the challenge of educational fantasies; Roger Willoughby and Hivren Demir Atay; Chapter 8: Great Expectations: Agenda and Authority in Technological, Hidden and Cultural Curriculums; Harriet Pattison & Alan Thomas.- Chapter 9: Alternatives to Education? Impotentiality and the Accident: New Bearings in the Ontology of the Present; Nick Peim.- Chapter 10: Educational Mutuality; Helen E Lees.- Section 2:  Doing Differently.- Chapter 11: Home Education: Practices, Purposes, and Possibilities; Rob Kunzman.- Chapter 12: School Ethics with Student Teachers in South Africa: An Innovative Educational Intervention; Karin Murris.- Chapter 13: Innovative Experiences in Holistic Education Inspiring a New Movement in Brazil; Helena Singer.- Chapter 14: Learning at the Edge of Chaos—Self-Organising Systems in Education; Sugata Mitra, Suneeta Kulkarni & James Stanfield.- Chapter 15: Fostering Alternative Education in Society—A Caring Community of the “Children’s Dream Park” and “Free Space En” in Japan; Yoshiyuki Nagata.- Chapter 16: Teacher Education—Generator of Change or a Mechanism for Educational Conformity?; Ian Menter.- Chapter 17: Philosophy with Children: An Imaginative Democratic Practice; Joanna Haynes.- Chapter 18: Forest School: A Model for Learning Holistically and Outdoors; Sara Knight.- Chapter 19: Creating Spaces for Autonomy: The Architecture of Learning and Thinking in Danish Schools and Universities; Max A. Hope & Catherine Montgomery.- Section 3: Acting Differently.- Chapter 20: Exploration and Rethinking: Student-Voice Studies in China; Wei Kan.- Chapter 21: Islamic Education as Asymmetrical Democratic Interaction; Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast.- Chapter 22: Is Low Fee Private Schooling in Developing Countries Really An “Alternative”?; Clive Harber.- Chapter 23: Humanist Schools in the Face of Conflicting Narratives and Social Upheaval – The Case of Israel; Nimrod Aloni.- Chapter 24: Geographies of Trust: A Politics of Resistance for an Alternative Education; John Smyth.- Chapter 25: Alternatives to School Sex Education; Michael J. Reiss.- Chapter 26: Critical Animal Pedagogies: Re-learning our Relations with Animal Others; Karin Gunnarsson Dinker & Helena Pedersen.- Chapter 27: Solitude and Spirituality in Schooling: The Alternative at the Heart of the School; Julian Stern.- Chapter 28: German Kinderlaeden: From Alternative Projects to Professional Pedagogy; Robert Hamm.- Chapter 29: Attachment Aware Schools: An Alternative to Behaviourism in Supporting Children’s Behaviour?; Richard Parker, Janet Rose & Louise Gilbert.

"The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education is a much friendlier and accessible text ... . I think the real strength of this book is its diversity of research, writing styles and countries covered ... . I think this book fills a much needed gap in the market of diverse and rigorous academic and practitioner research into alternative education and I would recommend it to students, academics and parents interested in learning more about educating differently." (Alys Mendus, Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, Vol. 10 (21), 2017)