Wednesday, 12 October 2011


Exploring unschooling with a fervent dabbler.

"For most men, the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school."
    Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

  1. 25 Explorations of Unschooling: Why to Unschool
  2. "An Unschooling Landscape" by Danielle Conger (pdf)
  3. "Unschooling Undefined" by Eric Anderson
  4. The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
  5. The Open Classroom by Herbert R. Kohl (pdf)
  6. Miseducation by David Elkind (pdf)
  7. Instead of Education by John Holt (pdf)
  8. "A Glimpse at Paolo Friere's Conscientisation" by Paolo Friere (pdf)
  9. "Mindful Mothering: The Art of Being Present" by Danielle Conger
  10. "10 Ways We Misunderstand Kids" by Jan Hunt
  11. "The Six-Lesson School Teacher" by John Taylor Gatto
  12. "Rules v. principles" by Danielle Conger (pdf)
  13. The Lives of Children: The Story of the 1st Street School by George Dennison (pdf)
  14. "Deschooling for Parents" by Sandra Dodd
  15. Growing Without Schooling newsletter and archives (John Holt)
  16. "How Children Really React to Control" by Thomas Gordon
  17. Audio and video recordings of John Holt
  18. "Against School" by John Taylor Gatto
  19. "TCS and Karl Popper" (Taking Children Seriously)
  20. "Parallels Between Unschooling and Unchurching" (Sparkling Adventures)
  21. "And They Played All Day" (Authentic Parent)
  22. "A Teacher Questions Compulsory Schooling" by Jim Strickland
  23. "Unschooled Wisdom", a video with unschooler Erica Goldson
  24. "The Case Against Competition", a talk by Alfie Kohn
  25. Go ahead and quit (Breaking Daylight)
  26. "The Decision to Unschool" (Unschool Days)  
25 Ways To Unschool: How to Unschool
    1. "The three stages of unschooling" by Kelly Lovejoy
    2. Letterboxing
    3. Toys from trash
    4. "Building an unschooling nest" by Sandra Dodd
    5. Unschoolers' Arts Gallery
    6. Unschooling math (An Unschooling Life)
    7. Using fairy tales (Waldorf Homeschoolers)
    8. Loving Kells (A Number of Things)
    9. How we unschool (A Bona Fide Life)
    10. The Unschooler Experiment
    11. Creating a portfolio (Enjoy Life Unschooling)
    12. "Learning to draw by observing nature" by Junyee Wang
    13. Global Children's Art Gallery (The Natural Child Project)
    14. "Emotions Are Not Bad Behavior" by Robin Grille
    15. "Unschooling didn't start with my children" (Radio Free School)
    16. Free Learners (Learning Freely Network)
    17. House rules (Consensual Living)
    18. Rethinking Everything, an international annual conference for freedom loving families
    19. Cage Free Family
    20. The Story of Stuff Project
    21. The Writer's Almanac
    22. Living and learning as a father in an unschooling family (This Dad's Take)
    23. 20 alternatives to punishment (The Parenting Pit)
    24. "An Unschooling Journey- From Control to Connection" (The Parenting Pit)
    25. Be a student of your child and chase the butterflies.
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