What happens to the Self when people discover alternative educational possibilities?

This presentation is an overview of work being done on the effect on the Self when people discover the ideas and philosophies of alternative educational practices, with a special emphasis on home education and the parents of home educated children.
It will give an insight into the alternative education scene in the UK at the moment, especially the home education scene. Included in the presentation will be a variety of topics that have arisen during the planning of my thesis, arranged to show the complexity of the issue. These may include a discussion of gypsy ontology and elective home education, the media’s portrayal of home education and the rise in home education, why the later work of Michel Foucault is relevant, the technology of the democratic with the personal, what ‘discovery’ is in the context of alternative education, what the Self can be in this context, what is ‘School Exit’?, why is there a discrepancy between policy and practice when it comes to informing about home education?, and possibly other ideas such as the difficulty of combining a philosophically orientated study with empirical field research.