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Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life

10 best books like Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life (Rue Kream): The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners, Learning All The Time, Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything, The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, And the Skylark Sings with Me, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense, A Little Way of Homeschooling

The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
AuthorJohn Taylor Gatto
ISBN0945700059
Book online at the author's website

Ah, for the good old days, back before child labor laws, back when no had time for such inventions as "adolescence", back when one could sing a cute song about darkies or niggers without being a racist, back when flogging children in the name of civility was...
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
AuthorGrace Llewellyn
ISBN0962959170
An estimated 700,000 American children are now taught at home. This book tells teens how to take control of their lives and get a "real life." Young people can reclaim their natural ability to teach themselves and design a personalized education program. Grace Llewellyn explains the entire process,...
Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners
AuthorLori McWilliam Pickert
ISBN1475239068
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...
Learning All The Time
AuthorJohn Holt
ISBN0201550911
How small children begin to read, write, count, and investigate the world, without being taught


The essence of John Holt's insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of How Children Fail and How Children...
Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything
AuthorLaura Grace Weldon
Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This data-from neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovators-turns many current assumptions about school-based education...
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom
AuthorMary Griffith
ISBN0761512764
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"...
And the Skylark Sings with Me
AuthorDavid H. Albert
ISBN0865714010
A clear and magical account of how David and Ellen helped their daughters find new ways to take charge of their education... A treat you should not miss.?John Taylor Gatto, 1991 New York Teacher of the Year and author of Dumbing Us Down
Progressive-minded parents considering homeschooling their...
The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
AuthorRachel Gathercole
ISBN1600651070
Makes the point that home schooled children are often "better" socialized than their conventionally schooled counterparts, with less problem behaviors, equal levels of self-esteem (at least), and higher maturity levels. She points out that most people who ask, "But what about socialization"...
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
AuthorDavid Guterson
ISBN0156300001
The author of this book (most famously known for his novel Snow Falling on Cedars) was a high school English teacher in Washington state. He and his wife homeschooled their three children, which gives the author a unique perspective on the differences between formal school (in this case, public school)...
A Little Way of Homeschooling
AuthorSuzie Andres
ISBN0983180008
Suzie Andres and twelve other Catholic homeschoolers describe how they implement an "unschooling" style of teaching in their homes. Drawing from St. Therese, St. John Bosco, John Holt (How Children Learn and How Children Fail), and ancient philosophers, the families paint a picture of authentic...
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves
AuthorAlison McKee
ISBN0965780627
A compelling story about one family's journey into the unknown territory of homeschooling, told with skill by Alison McKee, a gifted teacher with a wide experience in traditional education and a special sensitivity to the individual needs of children. Trusting her own children to "show me the way"...
The Day I Became an Autodidact
AuthorKendall Hailey
ISBN0440550130
This was an incredibly interesting book that I enjoyed far more than I initially thought I would. The premise is simple, teenager Kendall Hailey is highly dissatisfied about being told what to learn so decides to take control of her own education. What follows is a scattered journal illustrating the...
The Unschooling Unmanual
AuthorNanda Van Gestel
ISBN0968575455
Amazing! It's short, but really got me thinking about the 'educational system', and what it means to learn. There are a lot of references to John Holt by the various writers that contributed, and I am inspired by them to go out and get books about children and learning that he wrote.

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The Book of Learning and Forgetting
AuthorFrank Smith
The author eloquently contrasts a false and fabricated "official theory" that learning is work (used to justify the external control of teachers and students through excessive regulation and massive testing) with a correct but officially suppressed "classic view" that learning is a social process...
Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling
AuthorSandra Dodd
ISBN9780557181
How does unschooling work? There are many ways families can optimize natural learning in their lives, and find joy and laughter along with it. New unschoolers have had the same questions over the years, and experienced unschoolers go through some similar stages of nervous doubts. This book addresses...
Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know about Schools and Rediscover Education
AuthorClark Aldrich
ISBN1608321169
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...
Deschooling Our Lives
AuthorMatt Hern
ISBN0865713421
A provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools, this book argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood, and community-based educational efforts. Hern examines how the day-to-day experience of school teaches subservience, deadens...
Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life
AuthorPam Laricchia
Thinking about homeschooling? Curious about unschooling?

Walk with me as I share the five paradigm-changing ideas about learning and living that freed my family from the school schedule. With over ten years of experience, I have come to see how key these ideas were, and still are, to our unschooling...
The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach
AuthorHoward Gardner
ISBN0465088961
Howard Gardner's idea of teaching students to understand rather then just briefly explaining a subject I do like. Also how he feels we need to form our schools like a museum based study to get the students mentally and physically involved in their learning. I do not particularly care for his ideas of national...
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