Learning never ends
I've signed up for this course by Summerhill School, the one that inspired me to create APTB. Learning from the BEST... You can join me here: https://www.asneillsummerhillcic.co.uk/online-course-role-of-the-adult/
The course is called ‘The role of the adult - in facilitating a happy and fulfilled childhood’.
This online course aims at helping practitioners working with children explore some of the core values and concepts that have been at the heart of A.S. Neill’s philosophy and Summerhill School’s practice for a hundred years.
It will engage participants in a reflective and impactful observation of their practice, focusing on healthy relationships, social-emotional well-being and a happy, fulfilled childhood. It will stimulate adults’ resourcefulness and capacity to free children’s emotions and break down barriers restricting their development.
The course offers 50+ hours of certified training. Out of these, 30 hours will be of live interactions and 20+ hours of independent learning. Presentations, group activities, discussions and workshops as well as books, articles, academic papers, films, interviews and stimulating exercises will offer participants a broad understanding of the topics addressed; all these through our interactive virtual workplace!
It will be an invaluable source of information, practice and connection to one of the most brilliant people in the field of self-directed learning. A.S. Neill understood children, how they learn, what their needs are and how to treat them so that they grow freely into happy, healthy and self-confident adults.
As this is exactly what I’d like to offer to families at APTB there are no words for the excitement I’m feeling right now. The course begins on May 6th and I’ll keep you posted on the progress.
Here’s one of my favorite quotes by A.S. Neill:
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best. A.S. Neill
