‘homeschooling’ Archives
People Are Talking…About Our Books
Thanks to all the book club members and homeschooling groups who are discussing our books - For the Sake of Our Children, Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier and Challenging Assumptions in Education. Book clubs and other groups receive a generous discount for bulk orders of more than five copies. And we're working on a set of [...]
School is Not the Solution for Stressed Out Toddlers
The Australian government has recently proposed a program to prevent depression in very young children. Thanks to Barbara Kelly who reported this at Linda Dobson’s Homeschool Crones Café. Apparently, children are presenting themselves at primary schools with mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and those as young as one are [...]
Unschooling Extends John Dewey’s Legacy
October 20 marked the 150th anniversary of John Dewey’s birth. If he were alive today, the educational reformer would no doubt be aghast at the fact that the dominant educational philosophy still mimics that of an assembly line, with memorization and regurgitation of isolated “facts” organized in a pre-determined curriculum continuing to be [...]
Not Using Their Heads
I have been reading a series of feature newspaper articles about brain science and its relationship to education. Believe it or not, the education community – especially the public school system – has never paid much attention to neuroscience. You’d think that understanding how people learn would be at the very basis of how schools [...]