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Learning Alternatives - A Last Chance or A Real Choice

25/9/2003

SUMMARY:
As a society we have made a social and legally binding contract with all our
young people that says they must attend institutions of learning to a specific
age and they are denied the right to enter the labour market below a certain
age. In return, society promises to equip them with the minimum level of
education required to become independent learners and earners. What rights (if
any) have young people got under such a contract? Must they accept whatever
form of provision is on offer or do they have right to choice? If so, under
what circumstances? If we can now have 'special' senior schools for gifted
young people in the arts and in sports why not open access to such alternative
learning environments to younger people who are in fact coping with adult
responsibilities in their early teens? These questions lie at the heart of
""alternative education"" and recognition that broad based reform especially
in the middle and senior years of schooling is necessary if a strong
educational base is to be provided for all young people.

AUTHOR:
DSF - Dusseldorp Skills Forum info@dsf.org.au
Spierings, John john@dsf.org.au

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