Parental Experiences of Unschooling

Parental Experiences of Unschooling

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  • Author: Khara Schonfeld-Karan
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000632490
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 232

This volume explores unschooling as a growing phenomenon within the broader field of home education and considers the unique position of parents who engage in this self-directed form of education with their children. Drawing on an in-depth hermeneutic phenomenological study, the volume investigates the double consciousness of parents as they balance the costs/benefits of unschooling and navigate the roles of leading/following and parenting/teaching in the education and upbringing of their children. The author conceptualizes unschooling in the context of curriculum theory and situates it within the larger home education movement. By highlighting the fluctuating, (un)divided position that parents assume, the volume examines how learning and living are rendered inseparable in unschooling, thereby revealing unschoolers’ experience of a curriculum of learning-through-living. This book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, and postgraduates working across the fields of curriculum studies, parenting and family studies, and the sociology of education.


Unschooling To University

Unschooling To University

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  • Author: Judy Arnall
  • Publisher: Professional Parenting
  • ISBN: 1775178609
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

Learn how to acquire a personalized education through self-directed learning, and meet post-secondary entrance requirements.


Unschooled

Unschooled

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  • Author: Kerry McDonald
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • ISBN: 1641600667
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.


Differently Wired

Differently Wired

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  • Author: Deborah Reber
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 1523503866
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

It’s time to say NO to trying to fit square-peg kids into rounds holes, and YES to raising them from a place of acceptance and joy. Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn’t embrace who they really are. They are the one in five “differently wired” children with ADHD, dyslexia, giftedness, autism, anxiety, or other neurodifferences, and their challenges are many. And for the parents who love them, the challenges are just as numerous, as they struggle to find the right school, the right support, the right path. But now there’s hope. Differently Wired is a revolutionary book—weaving together personal stories and a tool kit of expert advice from author Deborah Reber, it’s a how-to, a manifesto, and a reassuring companion for parents who can so often feel that they have no place to turn. At the heart of Differently Wired are 18 paradigm-shifting ideas—what the author calls “tilts,” which include how to accept and lean in to your role as a parent (#2: Get Out of Isolation and Connect). Deal with the challenges of parenting a differently wired child (#5: Parent from a Place of Possibility Instead of Fear). Support yourself (#11: Let Go of Your Impossible Expectations for Who You “Should” Be as a Parent). And seek community (#18: If It Doesn’t Exist, Create It). Taken together, it’s a lifesaving program to shift our thinking and actions in a way that not only improves the family dynamic, but also allows children to fully realize their best selves. “In this generous and urgent book, Deborah Reber lets the light in. She helps parents see that they’re not alone, and even better, delivers a positive action plan that will change lives.”—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin “Differently Wired will help parents of children who think differently to accept their child for who they are and facilitate their successful development.”—Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and The Autistic Brain


18

18

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  • Author: Marta Obiols Llistar
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781953259127
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

When early childhood and elementary teacher Marta Obiols Llistar became disappointed with her local school system, she took action. Disillusioned with the so-called normal life, she embarked on a journey into a new life of unknowns. This is her story. In her memoir, 18: An Unschooling Experience, Obiols tells of her endeavor to unschool her three children until the eldest turned 18.


Unschooling

Unschooling

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  • Author: Gina Riley
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030492923
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

This book explores the history of the unschooling movement and the forces shaping the trajectory of the movement in current times. As an increasing number of families choose to unschool, it becomes important to further study this philosophical and educational movement. It is also essential to ascribe theory to the movement, to gain greater understanding of its workings as well as to increase the legitimacy of unschooling itself. In this book, Riley provides a useful overview of the unschooling movement, grounding her study in the choices and challenges facing families as they consider different paths towards educating their children outside of traditional school systems.


A Little Way of Homeschooling

A Little Way of Homeschooling

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  • Author: Suzie Andres
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780983180005
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Andres and 12 other Catholic homeschoolers describe how they implement an "unschooling" style of teaching in their homes. Drawing from St. Therese, St. John Bosco, John Holt, and ancient philosophers, the families paint a picture of authentic education without the constraints and pitfalls of typical modern education.


How Children Learn

How Children Learn

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  • Author: John Holt
  • Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
  • ISBN: 0201484048
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

Explores the natural learning processes of children at the pre-school and primary grade level and describes the ways in which formal education damages and impedes the child's independent ability to learn


Raising Free People

Raising Free People

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  • Author: Akilah S. Richards
  • Publisher: PM Press
  • ISBN: 1629638498
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems truly designed for any human to learn, grow, socialize, and thrive, regardless of age, ability, background, or access to money. Families and conscious organizations across the world are healing generations of school wounds by pivoting into self-directed, intentional community-building, and Raising Free People shows you exactly how unschooling can help facilitate this process. Individual experiences influence our approach to parenting and education, so we need more than the rules, tools, and “bad adult” guilt trips found in so many parenting and education books. We need to reach behind our behaviors to seek and find our triggers; to examine and interrupt the ways that social issues such as colonization still wreak havoc on our ability to trust ourselves, let alone children. Raising Free People explores examples of the transition from school or homeschooling to unschooling, how single parents and people facing financial challenges unschool successfully, and the ways unschooling allows us to address generational trauma and unlearn the habits we mindlessly pass on to children. In these detailed and unabashed stories and insights, Richards examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. This is how millions of families center human connection, practice clear and honest communication, and raise children who do not grow up to feel that they narrowly survived their childhoods.


Unschooling Dads

Unschooling Dads

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  • Author: Skyler Collins
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781517128609
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 156

"This is an important book. I'm glad you have it and are about to read more. It will help make many children's lives wonderful. When the parents relax enough to see the wonder in their children, then their own lives will improve. As each life is made richer and more peaceful, the family grows lighter, and happier." - Sandra Dodd, from the Foreword. By current standards the world over, unschooling is a radical educational practice based on radical philosophical concepts. Should children really be given the freedom to pursue their own academic interests? The unschooling dads who have written for this book answer that question with a concerted "YES!" Discover their reasons for choosing this most unconventional of approaches to education for their children. Unschooling Dads: Alan Southgate * Art Carden * Chris Moody * Danilo Cuellar * David Friedman * David Martin * Earl Stevens * Edwin Stanton * Gregory Diehl * Jeff Till * Jeremy Henggeler * John Durso * Mike Durland * Pace Ellsworth * Parrish Miller * Peter Gray * Phillip Eger * Rob Nielsen * Ron Patterson * Skyler Collins * Terry McIntyre * Thomas Knapp Also available in Kindle, EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and HTML for free, here: http://unschoolingdads22.com