Children and Education
Best Ideas
- Negakids
- Childless By Choice
- Childshare by shareparents
- Transmitting family noises to babies
- Engineering company reports for five-year-olds
- Children not teachers asking the questions
- The no blame approach to bullying
- Puerto Rico's vouchers attractive to schools
- A meeting place for home-educated children
- Paintbrush Diplomacy
- Teaching entrepreneurship
- University of the First Age
- A video history of Britain
- A bioregional multimedia template for schools
- Students using creativity to improve university
- University credits earned by community service
- A time tax on undergraduates
- Software revealing student plagiarism
- The interactive computer university of the future
Social Inventions
- Ambulance run by teenagers
- Marking children on their integrity
- Send primary teachers to France
- News from the Institute and The Natural Death Centre
- Girls to start school year later than boys
- 80 universities whose students tutor at schools
- TV watchers must put on show
- Paying pupils to learn
- Videos get kids to eat healthy foods
- Software to help children with dyslexia
- Contingent teaching works best
- All books accessible to all students by computer
- Star teachers only on video or cassette
- Spelling is a social invention
- Alternative Thinking Fellowships
Book of Visions
- Chanting in pregnancy and childbirth
- Prenatal University
- Dolphin midwives
- Planning for small children
- A directory of mothers' rooms
- Together time
- Magic Circle to enhance children's self-esteem
- A cassette for uncomfortable feelings
- Co-parents
- The British Organisation of Non-Parents
- The Parent Network
- Toughlove
- The Friendship Trust
- Bringing hobbies into the school curriculum
- Children's courts for school bullies
- Children's Ombudsman
- A school with its own money, courts and taxation
- Schools as model states
- UK Youth Parliament
- Contract between teenager and parents
- Sex education without fuss
- Children taking responsibility
- Pupil- run businesses at school
- Schoolchildren designing own curricula
- Pupils pacing themselves
- Badge for social responsibility
- School pupils earning used bikes
- Earning points for adulthood
- Forum Theatre - a new way to resolve children's fights
- Studying peaceful societies and tribes
- Schools social audits
- 320 hours per year of community service
- Tutoring - of students by students
- Homework TV Hotline
- 'People They Laughed At' book
- School Social Invention Workshops
- Innovations Counsellors for teachers and parents
- 'O Level' Social Inventions
- Voluntary Service Computing
- Computerised maths exam centres
- The Computer Whizz Kids Club
- Computer programming holidays
- Unisim
- A database of students' best work
- Mouth organs for every child
- Pathfinder Club
- Yoga in schools
- Label-challenging games
- Student loans repaid by National Insurance contributions
- Education on a human scale
- Adopt-a-Planet £1,000 competition
- Children's Alliance for Protection of the Environment (CAPE)
- Højskole High School
- The world does not need successful people
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