Saturday, August 30, 2008

Want to know more about unschooling?

Warning: This is a long list, and I haven't even checked them all out myself, so I can't promise you all the content will be from a Biblical perspective (probably not) or have only *good* pictures and text on them!

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Unschooling 101

************* BOOKS *************

Learning All the Time by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201550911

How Children Learn by John Caldwell Holt 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484048

How Children Fail by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484021

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt and Patrick Farenga
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0738206946

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0525134379

Moving a Puddle and Other Essaysby Sandra Dodd
http://sandradodd.com/puddlebook

The Relaxed Home School: A Family Productionby Mary Hood
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0963974009

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life & Education by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959170

Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go To School by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959138

The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761501924

The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroomby Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761512764

The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677140

The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 101 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761535705

Homeschooling Our Children; Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0965780627

Deschooling Our Lives by Matt Hern
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865713421

Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Lifeby Rue Kream
http://www.freechild.info/

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865714487

A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls by Susanna Sheffer http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0867094052

In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligencesby Thomas Armstrong 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1585420514

Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligencesby Thomas Armstrong 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0452281377

You're Smarter Than You Think: A Kid's Guide to Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1575421135

For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer MacAulay
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/089107290X

Learning At Home: A Mother's Guide To Homeschooling by Marty Layne
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0968293824

Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Loveby David H. Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567513700

Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery by David Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567512321

The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook by Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0785281754

Better Late Than Earlyby Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0883490498

School Can Waitby Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0842513140

Coloring Outside the Lines by Roger Schank 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0060930772

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise & Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0618001816

The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0972941606

Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement by John Holt, Susannah Sheffer 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677108

The Day I Became an Autodidactby Kendall Hailey
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0440550130

The Book of Learning and Forgettingby Frank Smith 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/080773750X

Better Than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence by Nancy Wallace 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0943914051

Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/091367706X

And the Children Played by Patricia Joudry
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0912766166

With Consent: Parenting for All to Win by Jan Fortune-Wood 
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1900219247

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0714508799

*************PERIODICALS*************

Home Education Magazine: 
http://www.homeedmag.com/index.html

Live Free, Learn Free:
http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/

Life Learning:
http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com

*************WEBSITES*************

Unschooling Wikipedia: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

Unschooling.com:
http://www.unschooling.com (See "Library" & "Message Boards")

Car Talk Guys:
Education:
The Learning of Skills We Will Never Need?
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/

The Education Forum
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/

The New Theory of Learning
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/r-rlast15.html

The Education Forum II
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/index2.html

Autodidactic Press:
http://www.autodidactic.com

Libertarian Unschooling:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6529/index1.html

Unschooling Undefined:
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/UnschoolingUndefined.html

Home's Cool A to Z:
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/methods/Unschooling.htm

Sandra Dodd:
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling.html

Child-led Natural Learning:
http://www.alternative-learning.org

Delight-Driven Learning:
http://home-educate.com/unschooling/index.shtml

Family Unschoolers Network:
http://www.fun-books.com

The Natural Child Project:
http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/earl_stevens.html

AHA Information Page:
http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/info.html

Amy Bell's Natural Learning:
http://home.rmci.net/abell/

Alfie Kohn:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/articles.htm

Search Google for thousands more unschooling resources!
http://www.google.com

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