Books on Home education

[Julienoshoes]

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Free Range Education: How Home Education Works Terri Dowty (ed) Hawthorn Press

It is a UK book (many are American) and each chapter is written by a different family about their experience - it gives a good idea of the range of experience.

Synopsis;
A handbook for families considering or starting out in home education. The book is full of family stories, resources, burning questions, humour, tips, practical steps and useful advice so the reader can choose what best suits his or her family situation.

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Interesting for me on two levels: obviously because I want to homeschool (although slightly premature as am only 21 weeks pregnant with first baby at the mo!) but also because i'm a book publisher in RL. I have to say I feel that there aren't exactly loads and loads of books to choose from. Maybe in a few years I'll think about commissioning something...

Interestingly enough snowymom, Mike who runs the HE-UK website also now has a small publishing company Cinnamon press that publishes a variety of books as well as the The Home Education Journal

Mike is part of a team of people who are actively researching home education in the UK and he also researched and wrote the book on so called School Phobia 'Can't go, Won't go'

His wife Jan is a well known author on Autonomous education and non coercive parenting

edheretics.gn.apc.org/ is also worth a look at for alternatives to mainstream education.

That is interesting. My company is www.snowbooks.com (hence the snowymum thing) - sounds like we share some common interests. I may get in touch when I know more about HE - and have some practice!

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I feel like I have read loads on Home Education...its now becoming a bit repetitive. If anyone can recommend something really different, then I'd be interested.

A friend is lending me the latest Alan Thomas book and then that will be me done for a while...

I'm waiting for my copy of that book to arrive.
Alan THomas came here and interviewed our lot for that book.
The kids were very interested to talk to him-and he seemd to feel the same about them.

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oh, just found this page... sorry for asking about the books

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How Children Learn at Home by Alan Thomas and Harriet Patterson.

Product Description
In his "Educating Children at Home", Alan Thomas found that many home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal style of education, radically different from that found in schools. Such learning, also described as unschooling, natural or autonomous, takes place without most of the features considered essential for learning in school. At home there is no curriculum or sequential teaching, nor are there any lessons, textbooks, requirements for written work, practice exercises, marking or testing. But how can children who learn in this way actually achieve an education on a par with what schools offer? In this new research, Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison seek to explain the efficacy of this alternative pedagogy through the experiences of families who have chosen to educate their children informally.Based on interviews and extended examples of learning at home the authors explore: the scope for informal learning within children's everyday lives; the informal acquisition of literacy and numeracy; the role of parents and others in informal learning; and, how children proactively develop their own learning agendas. Their investigation provides not only an insight into the powerful and effective nature of informal learning but also presents some fundamental challenges to many of the assumptions underpinning educational theory. This book will be of interest to education practitioners, researchers and all parents, whether their children are in or out of school, offering as it does fascinating insights into the nature of children's learning.

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Tahnks Julie, still researching myself...dd1 is happier at the mo as she has a different teacher until the summer...going to make a decision then and if one comes out then dd2 and dd3 will also come out....I would love it as I have good memories of being home educated and can see so many plus points!!! DH may take a bit of persuasion purely because his father is against it
Will keep up with your threads...