IDEAS
Ken Robinson’s TED Speech: How Schools Kill Creativity:
Filmmaker Astra Taylor speaks about her experiences as an unschooler (scroll the video forward to the 3:46 mark to hear her speech):
John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Gatto’s book made me think back with deep regret on the systematic damage my friends and I sustained as part of the school system. His chapter,”The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher,” is a wake-up call.
“What Is Unschooling?” by Earl Stevens
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2011 CONFERENCES
LIFE Is Good 2011 Unschooling Conference
Washington Homeschool Organization 2011 Convention & Curriculum Exhibit, & Student Expo
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UNSCHOOLING / DESCHOOLING ARTICLES & BLOGS
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Think Out Loud
Deschooling for Parents, by Sandra Dodd
De-Schooling Tips by Dianne Brooks
“Five Steps to Unschooling” by Joyce Kurtak Fetteroll
Swiss Army Wife: Living Life Radically, Right Now
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UNITED STATES
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) — Homeschool Laws by State
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INTERNATIONAL
Traveling Homeschoolers Speak: How They Do It
My heroes! Taking their kids out of institutional schooling, and off into the wider world.
Education Otherwise (United Kingdom)
Dagmar Neubronner’s Genius Verlag Page (in German)
Homeschooling and unschooling are pretty much illegal in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dagmar Neubronner champions the cause of families who want to take charge of their children’s learning. I don’t know of an English translation of her homeschooling memoir book Die Freilerner, but what I’ve read of it in German is sweet, insightful and important.
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LEARNING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Julie Merry’s Slow Food Cooking Classes for Children — The Merry Kitchen
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SECULAR PARENTING / UNSCHOOLING / HOMESCHOOLING
Homeschooling Freethinkers: A community for freethinking, atheist, and Humanist homeschoolers, with a good recommended reading list
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale Mc Gowan
Maybe Yes, Maybe No by Dan Barker
Ronnie Williams’ “Why Don’t Bees Go to Heaven?”
Natural Selection Rap:
The Spread of Major World Religions — from www.mapsofwar.com:
