Learning All The Time
10 best books like Learning All The Time (John Holt): Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners, Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School, The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, Teaching Montessori in the Home: The Pre-School Years, The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids, Deschooling Society
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Before reading this book I really thought I was 100% sure about my reasons to homeschool. Boy, was I wrong. I guess I was only half way there because now that I have finished this book, I realize that I never really saw the harms of the public school system 100%.
Our children are being limited every...
| Author | Lori McWilliam Pickert |
| ISBN | 1475239068 |
Project-based homeschooling combines children’s interests with long-term, deep, complex learning. This is an essential experience for children: to spend time working on something that matters to them, with the support of a dedicated mentor. This book is an introduction and guide to creating...
| Author | Rebecca Rupp |
| ISBN | 0609805851 |
Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through...
| Author | Mary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0761512764 |
I found this in the anemic "parenting" section of my new library. It's a lean little volume, mostly of extended quotes from self-titled "unschooling" parents. The technology is excruciatingly outdated (just go to AOL Member home to join a list!) circa 1997, and even though it calls itself a "handbook"...
In the book of Philippians we are told to be anxious over nothing, and yet we are anxious over everything. We worry that our students will be "behind," that they won't score well on the SAT, get into a good college, or read enough of the Great Books. Our souls are restless, anxiously wondering if something...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
| Author | Peter O. Gray |
| ISBN | 0465025994 |
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even outside of school children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision,...
Teaching Montessori in the Home: The Pre-School Years
| Author | Elizabeth G. Hainstock |
| ISBN | 0452279097 |
Claim quality togetherness with your child and fully enjoy the sensitive and formative years from two to five by adopting proven teaching techniques in your own home. This acclaimed guide puts the entire range of the Montessori system within your reach, so you can make the most of your child?s vital...
The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
| Author | Sarah Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 0310350328 |
Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s...
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| ISBN | 0714508799 |
Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. It is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. Full of detail on programs and concerns, the book gives examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education. Illich posited...
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
| Author | Julie Bogart |
| ISBN | 0143133225 |
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0743487486 |
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" — and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can...
| Author | Clark Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1608321169 |
While most schools continue to resist change, homeschooling families are abandoning the K-12 system and rediscovering what childhood education means. They are identifying new methods and goals that are powerful, born of common sense, and incompatible with today's schools. The author, education...
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
| Author | Salman Khan |
| ISBN | 1619697777 |
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents,...
The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads
| Author | Daniel T. Willingham |
| ISBN | 1119301378 |
Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request? Why does it matter?
The Reading Mind is a brilliant, beautifully...
The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
| Author | Neil Postman |
| ISBN | 0679750312 |
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic...
Los pilares de la tierra II
| Author | Ken Follett |
| ISBN | 8467436549 |
En plena Edad Media, en un tiempo de conflictos, la construcción de una magnífica catedral revoluciona la vida de Kingsbridge, una pequeña ciudad de Inglaterra. En torno a ella, confluyen las historias de diversos personajes: Tom, el maestro constructor; Aliena, la doncella; Philip, el prior...
Los pilares de la tierra III
| Author | Ken Follett |
| ISBN | 8467436565 |
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