Unschooling: the Movie
Lee Stranahan's film to show a little bit of what unschooling is about: a film based on the Stranahan family's personal experience, as well as talks with Sandra Dodd (above), her family and other unschoolers.
Balancing
in the Middle Ground
Letting children do nothing is as extreme as letting them do
everything. Doing everything for them is as wrong as doing nothing
for them. By Sandra Dodd, HEM N/D 03.
Five
Steps to Unschooling
How unschoolers can be so certain about something that seems
so counter intuitive to everything we've picked up about how
kids need to learn. Joyce Kurtak Fetteroll, HEM J/F 00.
Radical Unschooling
This is the unschooling "office" of Sandra Dodd, of
Albuquerque. Mother of three.
Radio Free
School
An all-volunteer weekly radio show by, for and about un-schoolers.
Select a show, and on the show's page, at the very bottom, click
on "download" or "pls" to listen. Shows are
about 30 minutes long.
The
Unschooling List FAQ
Kathy Wentz put this page together to cover some of the things
you might have always wanted to know about unschooling and the
unschooling email list but were afraid to ask.
Unschooling
or Homeschooling?
By Billy Greer. At one time they were just two terms for the
same thing, so the question was like asking what the difference
is between a car and an automobile.
Unschooling: taking home schooling to the ultimate extreme
CNN. Here's Joy's conversation with Christine Yablonsky and Phil Biegler, two Massachusetts parents who are "unschooling" their two children. "Unschooling" is like home schooling, but without textbooks, teaching, tests or a curriculum.
Unschooling
Undefined
What is it unschoolers don't want anyway?
Viral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling Life, by Mary Griffith
Mary Griffith pulls no punches with her witty insights into her life as a homeschool mom, the making of herself into a "famous homeschool author," and her part as a vital leader in the growth of homeschooling. By Ann Zeise.
What Is, and Isn't Unschooling
Unschooling isn't so much a method, as it is a way of looking at learning. It's seeing the learning in everything. To me, it's much more than just dropping the curriculum, although that's an excellent place to start.
What
is Unschooling?
Karen Gibson explains, "I find that one of the hardest things
with unschooling is learning to trust that your child will learn
what he needs to know for his own life, in his own time frame."
