About the Author

Roland Meighan is a writer, publisher, broadcaster, and consultant/researcher on learning systems, past present and future, formerly Special Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, and formerly Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Birmingham. He is a regular columnist in Natural Parent magazine and author of The Next Learning System: and why home-schoolers are trailblazers: John Holt: personalsed education and the reconstruction of schooling, Flexischooling; The Theory and Practice of Regressive Education; and the classic text, A Sociology of Educating.