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Nim's Island - unschooled girl on an island calls on favorite author to help when dad vanishes.
 
Learning All the Time: John Holt
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.

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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."

The Learning Community International
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Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything
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.
 
The Unschooling Unmanual
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
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.
 
LViral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling Life, by Mary Griffith
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.
 
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