Learning All the Time
by John Holt
In clear, direct language, Learning All the Time describes the
crucial difference between learning (making sense of the world)
and education (being forced to digest and regurgitate what someone
else dictates). Without vitriol, John Holt exposes how our children
are harmed more than helped by institutional schools.
Unschooling Defined
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.
An Interview with Laura Grace Weldon
Our long-time HEM "Questions and Answers" columnist, Laura Weldon, is now the author of a wonderful recently published book, Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything. She shares research on how we all learn, ways we can connect with others, ideas for helping to create a nurturing community for our children, and insights from homeschoolers around the world.
Radical Unschooling
This is the unschooling "office" of Sandra Dodd, of
Albuquerque. Mother of three.
RadioFreeSchool
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.
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."
Free Range Learning
How Homeschooling Changes Everything
by Laura Grace Weldon
This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down.
Radical Unschooling
A Revolution Has Begun
Revised Edition (Volume 2)
by Dayna Martin
Learning and life are not separate. Learning is pleasurable if it is not forced on us.
The Unschooling Unmanual
by Nanda Van Gestel et al
"A unique and empowering book about the growing trend of unschooling. It is the book to give to doubtful or fearing partners and family as well as anyone considering or interested in this life." - Dayna Martin, Unschooling America.
Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling
by Sandra Dodd
This book addresses and summarizes dozens of concerns and puzzlements about whether and how children can learn without schooling.
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. Review by Ann Zeise.
The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World
As Your Child's Classroom
by Mary Griffith
Unschooling, a homeschooling method based on the belief that
kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities
and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated
1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States.
