How do unschooling parents know their children are learning? The answer to this question is, to put it most simply, direct observation. — Jan Hunt in The Unschooling Unmanual Related articles The Teenage Liberation Handbook (kk.org) ‘Unschooling’ – education fad… Read More ›
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Evaluation
The assumption that unschooling parents somehow lack awareness of their children’s progress, and therefore require formal evaluation of that progress, is related to the fact that unschoolers function outside the arena of the schools, and our philosophies and methods are… Read More ›
Put it down
No parent would tell her toddler, “Let’s put that caterpillar down and get back to your book about caterpillars.” Unschoolers learn directly about the world. — Jan Hunt in The Unschooling Unmanual Related articles The Teenage Liberation Handbook (kk.org) ‘Unschooling’… Read More ›
School survival
— Jan Hunt in The Unschooling Unmanual
Trust
— Jan Hunt in The Unschooling Unmanual
Books I Read in February 2010
Animal Farm by George Orwell Space Demons: The Trilogy by Gillian Rubinstein A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French A New Dawn edited by Ellen Hopkins Lirael by Garth Nix Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller The Unschooling… Read More ›