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Author Profile: Harriet Pattison |
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Saturday, 15 November 2008 18:12 |
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Harriet Pattison is a research associate at the Institute of Education, University of London and the mother of three home educated children. Harriet Pattison writes ...
My interest in learning began, as for so many, with my own children. From the very start I was fascinated by their development and their learning. Once they began talking that fascination grew and grew. They would say things, come out with things and know things that I had no idea how they could have learned. I loved their perspectives on life, the way they worked things out in their own minds and how their own absorption with the world around them would stretch from watching an ant to gazing at the stars. Although I had learned enough from other home educators to believe that it would happen, still when our elder daughter started reading I really had no idea how she had achieved such a complex skill without instruction. My interest led me to some Open Univeristy courses in Child Development where I was astounded at the extent to which theory differed from what I had seen and experienced at home. Iit seemed as if the whole area of learning on a day to day basis as I had witnessed it was simply missing from the text book understanding of child development. I wanted to reach a better understanding of the learning I had seen, and unwittingly been part of, and so my children's learning has become my adventure too. I am very grateful to the families who have shared their own educational journeys with us and helped us all hopefully to learn and understand a little bit more. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 April 2009 15:24 )
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