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Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier
edited by Wendy Priesnitz
This passionate collection of essays from the leading edge of
educational theory and practice demonstrates how families around the
world are embracing the philosophy of life learning.
 Academics, parents and young people describe why non-compulsory,
non-coercive, active, respectful, interest-led, family- and
community-based learning from life is growing in popularity and will
displace prescribed curriculum, standardized testing and the other
regurgitation-based relics of our outmoded school system. This
innovative way of learning through living not only fosters
intellectual development and academic achievement, it allows
children and young people to develop an understanding of themselves
and their place in modern society so they can create a better world.
Life Learning is the story of how children can personalize and
control their own learning . . . and what adults can do (and stop
doing) to help them.
These essays from the last six years of Life Learning magazine
provide a great introduction to this progressive style of education,
written by those who have experienced it first hand. Includes
learning to read and do math without being taught, the importance of
unstructured play, learning when you’re ready, what’s wrong with
curriculum, trusting children to do their best naturally, a
grandparent’s reaction to unstructured homeschooling, learning in
the real world, parents as role models, self-reliance in life and
learning, and much more.
The Essays and the Authors: (Author bios available here.)
- Introduction: Learning in the Real World by Wendy Priesnitz
- The Educator’s Dilemma and the Two Big Lies by Daniel Grego
- Self Reliance in Life and in Learning by Gea D’Marea Bassett
- What is Education? by Sarabeth Matilsky
- Taking Risks & Breaking Rules by Wendy Priesnitz
- What We Should Know by Nathanael Schildbach
- Restructuring Education by Roland Meighan
- The Flow of Self-Directed Learning by Amy Spang
- Play is Self-Directed Learning by Marty Layne
- Doing Their Best, Naturally by Rachel Gathercole
- What You See May Not Be What You Get by Jan Fortune-Wood
- Whose Goal is it, Anyway? by Pam Laricchia
- Principles, Not Rules by Robyn L. Coburn
- Did Einstein’s Mommy Worry? by M. Jeanne Yardley
- Reading When You’re Ready by Ruthe Friedner Matilsky
- Zen and the Art of Unschooling Math by Rachel Gathercole
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- Always Learning by Carlo Ricci
- Culture & Community by Eva Swidler
- Children and Power by Lael Whitehead
- Re-choosing Life Learning by J. Ann Lloyd and Erica Gotow
- Learning Love of the Natural World by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
- Letting Go by Renata Rooney
- Birthing Our Selves, Our Children and Our World by Amy Childs
- The Hardest Thing is the Unknown by Karen Ridd
- Learning is Children's Work by Wendy Priesnitz
- Learning and Prospering in the Real World by Gaye Chicoine
- The House That Heather Built by Deb Baker
- Teachable Moments by Suzanne Malakoff
- The Case Against Teaching by Naomi Aldort
- Becoming Self-Directed Teachers by Natalie Zur Nedden
- The Labyrinth of Life Learning by Dayna Martin
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About the Editor:
Wendy Priesnitz
is a North American unschooling pioneer. She and her husband helped
their two daughters learn at home when it was almost unheard of,
beginning in the mid-1970s. In 1979, she founded the Canadian
Alliance of Home Schoolers and continues to share her experience and
long-term perspective through workshops, speeches, articles and
books. She has also served as leader of the Green Party of Canada,
and authored nine other books, including School Free and
Challenging Assumptions in Education. She is a former
broadcaster and an award winning journalist, was the founding editor
of Life Learning magazine and has edited
Natural Life
magazine since 1976. Read her blog here.
ISBN 978-0-920118-17-7, 192 pages
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