An art gallery in Falmouth will be hosting an exhibition examining home schooling from across the Duchy.

The Community Gallery exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery, ‘Heuristic Spaces’ by Bekkie Graham, includes images, video and audio of 18 home educating families across Cornwall.

Having launched on Friday 16 July, the exhibition showcases the different ways in which parents are educating their children at home.

In her artist's statement, Bekkie said: "'Heuristic Spaces' includes images, audio and video I captured in 18 home-educating families across Cornwall, in the south west of England during the autumn of 2019.

"Visually illustrating the families varied personal reasons for choosing alternative education and what they feel it brings to both their family's and children's lives.

Falmouth Packet: Having launched on Friday 16 July, the exhibition showcases the different ways in which parents are educating their children at home.Having launched on Friday 16 July, the exhibition showcases the different ways in which parents are educating their children at home.

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"The families stretch and encompass a wide range of philosophical beliefs around pedagogy and heutagogy.

"From structured learners recreating a school at home environment, following the national curriculum, to radical 'unschoolers'; where children are free each day to follow their own threads of interest, having total autonomy of their own personal, spiritual, philosophical and educational choices, whilst the parents facilitate this way of learning and discovery in whatever ways are necessary.

"At each meeting I witnessed new ways of learning and parenting happening.

"Capturing both the beauty and the potentials of an individualised education.

"The images capture both the education in progress, the individualised philosophical methods and the glue that holds these methods together."

The exhibition will be running at Falmouth Art Gallery for the next four weeks, with a possible extension until the end of the summer holidays.