#103 Embracing a different kind of learning, with Zahra Lightway and Patricia Sprenger
About this episode
Esther Jones discusses alternative education with Zahra Lightway and Patricia Sprenger, focusing on the importance of child agency and observation in learning.
This episode, I am with Zahra Lightway and Patricia Sprenger of Light Way Learning. Both came to alternative education through feeling disilusioned with the education system, Zahra as a teacher whose son had found the system difficult, and Patricia as a parent whose children were struggling at school. We talk about learning looks when it doesn’t look like school, the power of just observing our children, and the amazing things that can happen when they have agency over their own learning. And...
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