Resources for Self-Directed Learning: some things to get you started
Books
We strongly urge you to get a copy of Homeschooling in Wisconsin: At Home with
Learning by the Wisconsin Parents Association , P.O.Box 2502, Madison,
WI 54701-2502 for $24.95 (members receive a discount.) This
handbook answers almost all questions you may have regarding homeschooling in the
state. WPA also holds a statewide homeschooling conference each spring in Stevens
Point. Write to the same address to
receive a brochure. WPA voice mail 1-800-283-3131.
Anything by John Holt, especially:
- Learning All The Time -- how small children begin to read, write, count, and investigate the world without being taught.
- Teach Your Own -- his handbook on homeschooling
- Never Too Late -- "...whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn..." The story of his learning to play cello at age 50.
Grace Llewellyn:
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook: how to quit school and get a real life and education. Written for teens, but useful for others as well. New revised edition 1998.
- Real Lives: eleven teenagers who don't go to school-- their stories in their own words. My 12 year old daughter tells me she's read this 4 times.
Mary Griffith:
- The Homeschooling Handbook -- an inclusive guide to styles of homeschooling, empowering readers to make decisions on what is best for their particular families.
- The Unschooling Handbook : how to use the whole world as your child's classroom -- another winner, featuring our own Cindy, Dan and Ben as well as other unschoolers from across the country.
Linda Dobson: The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community, and Self -- powerfully written analysis of what is wrong with government schooling and how to find fulfillment through family centered education.
Thomas Armstrong: In Their Own Way -- A classic on understanding and responding to differences in learning styles.
David and Micki Colfax: Hard Times In Paradise -- By a homesteading homeschooling family. 3 out of 4 of their sons chose to go to Harvard on full scholarships.
David Guterson: Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense -- the perspective of a public school teacher who homeschools his children.
Cafi Cohen: And What About College?: How Homeschooling leads to admission to the best colleges and universities -- just what it says.
Herbert Kohl: The Question Is College -- just reissued.
Susannah Sheffer: A Sense of Self: Listening to homeschooled adolescent girls -- why homeschooled girls do not experience the loss of voice and self-esteem common to
schooled teen girls.
Rebecca Rupp: Good Stuff: Learning Tools for All Ages -- Thousands of books, games, videos, contacts, etc.
Anna Kealoha: Trust The Children: A Manual and Activity Guide for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning -- Many friendly ideas for preschool and elementary ages with a holistic/New Age flavor
Periodicals:
Home Education Magazine P.O.Box 1083, Tonasket, WA 98855 1-509-486-1351. A meeting ground for all approaches to home learning since 1983. regularly $32.00 or two years for $64.00, bimonthly. Single Copy $6.50
Web pages:
Unschooling.com includes many links to currciulum vendors, correspondence schools
Last Modified: May 2010
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