As to the promotion of alternative education, Moo Baan Dek has been visited by a number of individuals and organizations from within and outside the country. Students from Japan come every year to live with children at Moo Baan Dek for a week or so and mutually learn from each other. In 1998, there were nearly 300 foreign visitors at Moo Baan Dek.

In order to campaign for the inclusion of alternative education in the draft of the National Education Bill, which is being read in the House of Parliament, Moo Baan Dek has formed the People's Council on Education, a coalition of homeschoolers, and those interested or involved in alternative education. The Council has organized seminars and discussions to raise awareness of alternative education among the public.

The former National Education Bill stated that every child has to attend school, and this had prevented homeschooling from taking place. It did not recognize also the importance of having alternative education. What was more worrisome is that educational curriculum has been increasingly designed to equip students with skills that serve the corporate, and that drive further the mechanisms of consumerism, rather than knowledge that helps them to understand the meaning of their life.

Through the People's Council on Education, Moo Baan Dek is taking part in shaping the education that embraces diversity of children, and that is ultimately aimed at assisting each child to become a sensible and responsible citizen of the world.

NETWORK OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION