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There are many good books out there to help satiate your
need for more information. Here are some you can get through your favourite
book seller. Where it's possible to buy directly from the author, I've included
linked the title.
Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life by Rue Kream
This terrific book is written in question & answer format, with both
unschooling-specific and parenting questions. As one of the reviewers
wrote: "Rue addresses clearly and persuasively the most common questions and
objections in an easily accessible format. The personal experience and
conviction brought to each answer shines through along with her deep love
and respect for her children." So true!
Moving a Puddle and other essays by Sandra Dodd
Finally! Sandra has pulled together 48 of her essays and published them in
easy-to-read book format. The overall theme is how learning, parenting and
everyday life can be in the absence of school, viewed from different vantage
points over a dozen years.
Big Book of Unschooling by Sandra Dodd
Would you like to have a printed and bound version of Sandra's huge website?
Here it is! She's hand-picked many of the thoughts and insights found on
her website and brought them together just for you right here.
The Unprocessed Child - Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter
Is a wonderful self-published book about raising a child in an unschooling
lifestyle. It's great to read about unschooling in action, not just in
theory.
The Unschooling Handbook - How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's
Classroom by Mary Griffith
This book is a really great introduction to the world of unschooling. She
gives an overview of unschooling, takes a look at the kinds of materials we
learn from, discusses documentation, gives examples of the unschooling
approach to learning in some basic subject areas, and looks at some of the
other issues involved with unschooling. The book is full of anecdotes from
other unschooling parents, and some from unschooling kids themselves.
The Homeschooling Book of Answers - The 88 Most Important Questions
Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices by Linda Dobson
Not specifically an unschooling book, but it is quite unschooly. It's a good
book for answers to all those nagging little questions, in your mind as well
as in the minds of well-meaning relatives and friends!
The Teenage Liberation Handbook - How to Quit School and Get a Real
Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
An "unschooling handbook" for older kids, it has almost reached cult status.
Teach Your Own by John Holt
In fact, anything by John Holt - Learning All The Time, How Children Fail,
How Children Learn and many others. Considered the "father" of unschooling
by many, his books recount his journey from school teacher to unschooling
advocate.
Family Matters - Why Homeschooling Makes Sense by David Guterson
He gives an interesting perspective as high school teacher and a
homeschooling parent.
Dumbing Us Down - The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by
John Taylor Gatto
Though not an unschooling book at all, it's collection of essays from a long
time public school teacher that clearly describe many of the problems with
formal schooling. His acceptance speech for New York Teacher of the Year in
1991 is very compelling: The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher.
Life Learning magazine
Is a great online magazine about self-directed learning. It's a family-run business
that has been supporting life learning, or unschooling, for many years.
I've also contributed a few articles!
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