In Their Own Way is probably the best of the books by Thomas Armstrong
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Homeschooling the Teen Years by Cafi Cohen
This contains a lot of useful information:
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Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World by Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons, explains why some people fit into school, and some do not.
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The Fundamentals of Home Schooling by Anne Lahrson-Fisher
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By Mary Gold
It was going to be his first day on the mountain and my old anxieties were creeping in. With his brand new snowboard tucked under his arm and his first-ever season [...]
Does School ‘Socialise’ children?
By Susan Wight, Bendigo, Victoria
One of the meanings of the term “socialisation” is the process by which the accepted culture is passed on to the next generation. For centuries this process was a [...]
The Down Syndrome Family
By Barbara Frank
Until 1993, we were your average homeschool family. We had been happily homeschooling our older two children for five years, and had an adorable little toddler who kept us busy and [...]
Out of the Archives – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
In this edition we begin a new series looking at some of the educational figures and theories throughout history. In our reading we have found it interesting to notice the aspects that have been taken up and those that have never achieved popular appeal.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
(1746-1827)
Johann Pestalozzi believed “education in the family is crucial, for love is the central emotion within the familial context, and it is this which enables the child to foster its original good will.” Education, he said, should begin in family life, where the main goal is to open the hearts of children by satisfying their basic needs.
Born in Zurich, Pestalozzi took up Rousseau’s ideas and explored how they might be developed and implemented. His early experiments in education ran into difficulties but he persisted and what became known as the ‘Pestalozzi Method’ came to fruition in his school at Yverdon in 1805. …
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