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Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen will this September publish a book to help parents educate their children beyond the confines of the school curriculum.
Writing on his blog today (2nd June), he said: “I have just finished the first draft of a book primarily for parents called Good Ideas - on ideas to do with thinking, talking, writing, playing, doing and looking. It's not about 'education' in the sense of schooling, but it's all about education in the sense of...er....education.”
The book will be published by Hodder & Stoughton, who describes it as “part Dangerous Book for Boys, part alternative curriculum”. It will feature games, stories and information and will “show every anxious parent and bored child out there that the best kind of education really does start at home”.
Rosen is a vocal campaigner for a less rigid school curriculum and last October signed a letter arguing that education secretary Michael Gove’s policies are leading to “harmful stress” on young people, their parents and their teachers.
He also writes a regular column for the Guardian critical of the education secretary.
Tomorrow’s article (3rd June) will be on recent changes to the GCSE syllabus, which is seeing several exam boards dropping US texts such as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
However, Rosen said on his blog that Good Ideas is not designed to replace or rival the school curriculum.
“I see that the Sunday Times (1st June edition) is calling it a 'rival' to Gove. Not really,” he said.