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10 best books like The Unschooling Unmanual (Nanda Van Gestel): Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, The Argonauts, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, A Complicated Kindness, How Children Learn, Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners, Free Range Learning How Homeschooling Changes Everything, How Children Fail, The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
AuthorRichard Louv
ISBN1565125223
"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...
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 Argonauts
AuthorMaggie Nelson
ISBN1555977073
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.

Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of...
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
AuthorJohn Taylor Gatto
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...
A Complicated Kindness
AuthorMiriam Toews
ISBN1582433224
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity.

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning...
How Children Learn
AuthorJohn Holt
ISBN0201484048
This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, “learning is as natural as breathing.” In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...
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...
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...
How Children Fail
AuthorJohn Holt
ISBN0201484021
First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights into how children investigate the world, into the perennial problems of classroom learning, grading, testing, and into the role of the trust...
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"...
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
AuthorGrace Llewellyn
ISBN0471349607
GUERRILLA LEARNING IS CREATING A HOME ENVIRONMENT THAT FILLS YOUR CHILD WITH THE JOY OF LEARNING

Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework . Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner...
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"...
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
AuthorAdele Faber
ISBN0380811960
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down--to--earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful...
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
AuthorJohn Taylor Gatto
ISBN0865716315
“Gatto draws on thirty years in the classroom and many years of research as a school reformer. He puts forth his thesis with a rhetorical style that is passionate, logical, and laden with examples and illustrations.” ForeWord Magazine

“Weapons of Mass Instruction is probably his best...
Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World
AuthorBen Hewitt
ISBN1611801699
When Ben Hewitt and his wife bought a sprawling acreage of field and forest in northern Vermont, the landscape easily allowed them to envision the self-sustaining family farm they were eager to start. But over the years, the land became so much more than a building site; it became the birthplace of their...
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
AuthorAlfie Kohn
ISBN0743487486
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...
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...
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems
AuthorStephanie Burt
ISBN0465094503
An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre

In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating...
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