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    Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom

    Written by Kerry Mcdonald

    Narrated by Lesa Lockford

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    Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn’t have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives.

    In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children’s natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people’s innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.

    Foreword by Peter Gray, PhD

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781974947973
    Author

    Kerry Mcdonald

    Kerry McDonald is an education policy writer whose articles have appeared in Forbes, Newsweek, Reason, Education Next, City Journal, and Natural Mother and Green Child magazines and on NPR, among others. She has a BA in economics from Bowdoin College, a master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and is a board member at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. The mother of four never-been-schooled children, she blogs at WholeFamilyLearning.com and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    • 5/5
      While reading this book I had so many aha moments that really made sense. I truely loved this book and it’s inspired me to unschool my family.
    • 5/5
      Highly recommend this book for people homeschooling or unhappy with the government school model
    • 2/5
      The book is well organized. This method just isn't for us. It's worth a read to understand what this method is about.
    • 5/5
      As a homeschooler of 4 years this book completely inspired me to deconstruct while reconstructing my views and beliefs related to my kids’ educational and learning experience within our homeschooling “system”. Highly recommend anyone considering or already homeschooling to dig into this!

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