IDEAS

Ken Robinson’s TED Speech:  How Schools Kill Creativity:


Filmmaker Astra Taylor speaks about her experiences as an unschooler (scroll the video forward to the 3:46 mark to hear her speech):


John Taylor Gatto’s Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Gatto’s book made me think back with deep regret on the systematic damage my friends and I sustained as part of the school system.  His chapter,”The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher,” is a wake-up call.

“What Is Unschooling?” by Earl Stevens

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2011 CONFERENCES

LIFE Is Good 2011 Unschooling Conference

Washington Homeschool Organization 2011 Convention & Curriculum Exhibit, & Student Expo

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UNSCHOOLING / DESCHOOLING ARTICLES & BLOGS

The Unschooling List FAQs

Oregon Public Broadcasting:  Think Out Loud

Deschooling for Parents, by Sandra Dodd

De-Schooling Tips by Dianne Brooks

“Five Steps to Unschooling” by Joyce Kurtak Fetteroll

The Life Without School Blog

Swiss Army Wife:  Living Life Radically, Right Now

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UNITED STATES

Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) — Homeschool Laws by State

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INTERNATIONAL

Traveling Homeschoolers Speak: How They Do It

My heroes!  Taking their kids out of institutional schooling, and off into the wider world.

Education Otherwise (United Kingdom)

Homeschool Australia

Dagmar Neubronner’s Genius Verlag Page (in German)

Homeschooling and unschooling are pretty much illegal in the Federal Republic of Germany.  Dagmar Neubronner champions the cause of families who want to take charge of their children’s learning.  I don’t know of an English translation of her homeschooling memoir book Die Freilerner, but what I’ve read of it in German is sweet, insightful and important.

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LEARNING OUTSIDE THE BOX

Julie Merry’s Slow Food Cooking Classes for Children — The Merry Kitchen

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SECULAR PARENTING / UNSCHOOLING / HOMESCHOOLING

Homeschooling Freethinkers:  A community for freethinking, atheist, and Humanist homeschoolers, with a good recommended reading list

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale Mc Gowan

 

Maybe Yes, Maybe No by Dan Barker

Ronnie Williams’ “Why Don’t Bees Go to Heaven?”

The Rap Guide to Evolution

Natural Selection Rap:

The Spread of Major World Religions —  from www.mapsofwar.com: