Posts Tagged ‘radical unschooling’
March/April 2010 Issue Now Published
Subscribers to Life Learning Magazine have just been notified that the password-protected March/April 2010 issue is now available for them to download. You can view the table of contents here and you can subscribe here. We've also posted a short sample article from the issue on the Life Learning Magazine website. Drop by the website and [...]
Unschooling, Radical Unschooling, or Something Else?
Most life learners don’t like to label their children – whether it’s using the alphabet soup provided by those who would drug children into submissive behavior or by means of school-style grades. So I’m always amused and disturbed in equal parts when the debate begins about what to call this sort of child-led, non-coercive, lifestyle that [...]
Preview of March/April issue of Life Learning Magazine
We're working hard on the March/April issue of Life Learning Magazine. Here's a preview of the cover. There will be a great new article by John Taylor Gatto; a brilliant piece by David Albert about sorting out our own philosophy of life, parenting and education; and lots more wonderful inspiration and reassurance for unschoolers. (Yes, I'm [...]
Why is it scary to honor and trust our children?
Thanks to Kyla Matton for her insightful review of our recently published book For the Sake of Our Children by Quebec author Leandre Bergeron. I know the book is challenging (otherwise, why publish it!?), but I'm wondering why the ideas of honoring one's children (rather than treating them as possessions), allowing them the freedom to [...]
January/February Issue of Life Learning
The password-protected January / February 2010 issue of Life Learning Online is now available to subscribers. Not a subscriber yet? Here's where you can check out what you're missing. Subscribe today and receive access to the PDF as the first issue in your subscription. Your online subscription will also include access to PDFs of all the [...]
Not Boxing Ourselves In With Labels and Definitions
Back in the 1970s and 80s when my daughters were young, they learned by living their daily lives, through experience...both that which found them and that which they sought out. They reacted to a need or an interest by exploring, researching, asking questions, listening to others, testing their ideas and putting them into motion, getting feedback, [...]