Education Without Schools ― Discovering Alternatives

Education without Schools explores what happens when parents learn that there are legal alternatives to conventional schooling. Based on an empirical case study of families in England who discovered the possibility of elective home education, this book offers a globally relevant analysis of the state’s relationship to education, parental choice, and related human rights issues. Underscoring the fact that education occurs in many different contexts around the world, Helen E. Lees argues that schooling’s dominance has ultimately limited our ability to imagine the full range of educational possibilities.

Helen E. Lees is a research fellow at the Laboratory for Educational Theory in the School of Education at University of Stirling and associate research fellow in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John University.