Scotland's looked after children: best educated in class, or do they need a 'hole in the wall'?

Paul Lee Alan

Scotland's looked after children: best educated in class, or do they need a 'hole in the wall'?

Paul Lee Alan

Centre For Excellence For Children'S Care And Protection

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How can looked after children with special educational needs be supported outside the school day? Research suggests a significantly high proportion of looked after children have special educational needs. This piece briefly explores my own educational experiences in the 1950s and '60s with reference to my recent discovery of the apparent benefits of peer supported, 'unsupervised' learning in the 'hole in the wall' experiment in the slums of Kalkaji, New Delhi, initiated by Sugata Mitra, Chief Scientist at NIIT, in 1982.

Original language	English
Number of pages	7
Journal	Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
Volume	17
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2018

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looked after children
special education needs
New Delhi

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Scotland's looked after children: best educated in class, or do they need a 'hole in the wall'?

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