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	<title>Life Learning with Wendy Priesnitz &#187; life learning</title>
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	<description>Personalized, non-coercive, active, interest-led learning from life (unschooling)</description>
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		<title>Unschooling is Nothing New</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/09/07/unschooling-is-nothing-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rhetoric – in the media, on social networking sites… – about “unschooling” is in overdrive these days. Whether the discussion is positive or negative in nature, the phenomenon is often breathlessly and incorrectly described as new or unorthodox. In fact, unschooling life learning is the way people naturally learn and school is the new-fangled way of doing things. Real learning has always been driven by interest and curiosity rather than by artificial motivation by teachers using a one-size-fits all agenda. Schooling is a relatively recent – and ineffective – attempt to standardize the learning process, but it can’t remove the learner’s control over learning. ]]></description>
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		<title>Unschooling Teaches Us To Release Control Over Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unschooling is about adults releasing control over children, and allowing them to live and learn autonomously.]]></description>
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		<title>Always Learning</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/22/always-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning never stops, so it's nonsensical to say that it will begin again when school starts.]]></description>
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		<title>Defeating Adultism</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/08/14/defeating-adultism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adults have a special status of control over kids called adultism. They make decisions for children, create rules that govern children’s day-to-day lives, and generally tell kids what to do. One of the places that this abuse of power manifests itself is our education system. Life learners and unschoolers are challenging adultism and leading the way to a future where children are respected as functioning members of society.]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Summer Brain Drain</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/29/the-myth-of-summer-brain-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many parents and teachers worry that kids will forget what they "learned" over the summer, but if they forget it that fast, it was merely memorized and not really learned.]]></description>
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		<title>Computers and Self-Directed Learning</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/18/computers-and-self-directed-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What educational researchers fail to remember is that no matter what sort of manipulation, supervision or technology is directed at the educational process, people learn what they want and need to learn. And that's an education.]]></description>
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		<title>The Fast Food Model of Education</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/12/the-fast-food-model-of-education/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/12/the-fast-food-model-of-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education Books by Wendy Priesnitz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Taylor Gatto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A curriculum is a fast food diet of other people’s ideas that is fed to children in schools. It is designed by a group of people assumed to be much better qualified than mere parents – let alone children – to decide exactly the type of information that should be fed, and when, and how its digestion should be measured. However, that very process results, more often than not, in what I call “fast-food education.” It is no wonder that many students have to be forced to eat this diet...and in many cases fail to digest it. Its standardized content is often bland, bulked up with fillers, and short on flavor. Its delivery is regimented and, many times, uninspired. School children are seldom consulted as to their tastes, or even level of hunger, let alone trusted to understand their own nutritional requirements or dietary quirks! The force-feeding process is so relentless that many students gag on it, in some cases becoming permanently soured on learning.]]></description>
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		<title>The Roots of Unschooling Denial</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/05/the-roots-of-unschooling-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/07/05/the-roots-of-unschooling-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If adults admit to the damage done to themselves by their schooling, they would have to question sending their own children to school. And that could be inconvenient. So denial rules.]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Are Capable of Much More Than We Give Them Credit For</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/13/normalizing-the-idea-that-kids-are-capable-human-beings/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/13/normalizing-the-idea-that-kids-are-capable-human-beings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent sailing misadventure of sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland and the successful climbing of Mount Everest by thirteen-year old Jordan Romero have me thinking about skill and ability as related to age. Whenever a kid accomplishes something major, it hits the media because children aren't expected to achieve much in our society. But the coverage usually involves adult disapproval more than admiration and encouragement.]]></description>
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		<title>Unschooling: Doughnuts and Peanut Sauce</title>
		<link>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/02/unschooling-doughnuts-and-peanut-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://lifelearningmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/02/unschooling-doughnuts-and-peanut-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Priesnitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ABC News show Nightline has recently featured “unschooling.” I guess budgets are low and the network is repurposing content – or at least ideas. Last month, one of the Nightline segment “reporters” did a similar piece, with a different family, on the ABC show Good Morning America. It was equally as ignorant, unbalanced, and sensationalist. But I [...]]]></description>
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