Home Educating & Unschooling Books

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Please share any inspirational books you have come across!

Thanks to Cyathea:

I am wanting to get hold of "How Children Learn At Home" By Alan Thomas, I have read pretty good reviews of it.

I have seen mention of these others, and am keen to know what others think.

"Home Learning Year By Year" Rebecca Rupp
"Homeschooling: The Teen Years" Cafi Cohen
"The Ultimate Book Of Homeschooling Ideas" Linda Dobson
"The Unschooling Handbook" Mary Griffith
"The First Year Of Homeschooling Your Child" Linda Dobson
"The Complete Home Learning Source Book" Rebecca Rupp
"The Homeschooling Book Of Answers" Linda Dobson
"The Teenage Liberation Handbook" Grace Llewellyn
"The Well T.rained Mind" Jessie Wise & Susan Wise Bauer
"The Art Of Teaching Art To Children"Nancy Beal & Gloria Miller
"The Unprocessed Child"
"The Unschooling Unmanual" Mary Griffith
"Parenting a free child - An unschooled life" By Rue Kream
"A different kind of teacher" John Taylor Gatto


Thanks to Shakti and MajikFaerie;

ivan illich, deschooling society
http://reactor-core.org/deschooling.html


Thanks to Greenddragon;

Beverly Paine has lots of little pamphlet sized books. We have a couple; Natural Learning & something about educational games (obviously I've read it thoroughly http://www.joyouslearning.info/blahdocs/Smilies/lol.gif) We have Parenting a Free Child and The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child as well as Learning all the Time, oh & we also have a collection of "day in the life" stories of Aussie home ed families edited by Beverly Paine, I think it's called Learning Without School.


Thanks to Beatrice;

I have the Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas although I haven't looked at it for a few years http://www.joyouslearning.info/blahdocs/Smilies/blush.gif From memory, it's really a compendium of the kinds of personal tips and ideas that spending a bit of time surfing h/s websites and blogs and keeping a text file of the ideas which jump out at you will provide for free, personally tailored to your kids.

Haven't read The Well-T.rained Mind, but having heard reports of it from the perspectives of unschoolers who have I'd say, eh. There's a sample chapter on teaching preschoolers to read here http://www.welltrainedmind.com/wtmchap4.html.

Gatto's The Underground History of American Education is online here: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm I've read it online and it's very thought-provoking.

Also, at the conference last year, John Taylor Gatto and Alan Thomas were the main speakers, and their talks are available on DVD from Beverley Paine's website (at least I think it still is): http://alwayslearningbooks.com.au/#DVD


Thanks to Mumma2Mia;

Authors Alfie Koen and Dr. Thomas Gordon are great. The focus is not on HS, but parent/child communication. Highly recommended . . .

Has anyone made mention of the Natural Child Project web site? GREAT readings can be found there. http://www.naturalchild.org (http://www.naturalchild.org/)

An excellent Australian site is http://theparentingpit.com/. I find his writings thought provoking and honest.


Thanks to Marijo;

It has brought to my mind a book I read a couple of years ago, Australian, not American, about the social implications of childcare. It's got three parts: the first one discusses the evolution of feminism and describes the emergence of maternal or social feminism; the second one focuses on the damage that we do to children in chilcare, accentuating that the more hours and the younger they are, the worse, and showing recent studies that government refuse to acknwoledge; the third part explaines what she calls the "Macdonaldization" of childcare and childhood, and how, in our current economic system, families are pushed to put materialism above family.

It is a gem:

Anne Manne. "Motherhood. How should we care for our children"
http://www.mothersdirect.com.au/prod586.htm