Special Feature: – Home Educating on a Budget
We make suggestions for saving your home education dollar.
Articles:
Less than a Dollar a Day Home Education By John Peacock
VCE/VET at Neighbourhood Houses Lyn reports on some extra options for VCE and VET.
Much too Early (preschool) David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child, takes a logical look at [...]
By Susan Wight
So you’ve decided to home educate but now you are worried about how you will ever afford all of those flashy curriculum resources, especially if home education means living on one income as it does for most families.
The good news is that home education does not have to be expensive.
You don’t really need [...]
By John Peacock
1. Flip an encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedias are so cheap from Op. shops these days that you could probably get a few for nothing. They have one feature that I like and that is even better than Google. Because there is so much knowledge these days encyclopaedias tend to edit old stuff out to make room [...]
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Special Feature: – Grandparents Lyn looks at the benefits of home education to grandparents.
Articles:
The New Home Education Act How to register, why to register and what happens if you don’t register.
An Unschooling Journey From Control to Connection Arun Pradham tells of his family’s experiences with “radical unschooling”.
Being A Cheerful Rebel Deborah Markus reflects [...]
By Lyn Saint
As grandparents, you naturally want the best for your grandchildren. You want them to be happy, well educated and to have every chance at a good life.
You have no doubt worked long and hard to provide a good education for your own children and are therefore puzzled and afraid when you hear that [...]
The Education and Training Reform Act 2006, came into effect in Victoria on 1st July 2007.
It requires home educators to:
“register children for homeschooling in accordance with the regulations and to ensure that the child receives instruction in accordance with the regulations.”
There are two levels of legal requirements for home education:
– the Legislation (The Education and Training [...]
Special Feature: – ‘I’m a Saboteur’ David Pink’s interview with educational rebel John Taylor Gatto who is soon to visit Australia.
Articles:
Mashed Potato Education John Peacock reports on some disturbing news from Germany.
Natural Learning in Action Is natural learning ‘doing nothing’? Sue reports.
Licola 2007 Sharee’s superb pictorial report on this year’s camp at Licola.
Plato’s Revenge John [...]
‘Otherways’ editors are Lyn Saint and Sue Wight.
The ‘Letters from Home‘ section will be prepared by Lyn. Please send ‘Letters from Home’ to Lyn at coordinator@home-ed.vic.edu.au.
Network News is prepared by Sue Wight. Please send your network news direct to Sue at robwight@optusnet.com.au
Home Ed Kids pages are prepared by Sue Wight. Please send poems, short stories and [...]
By Susan Wight
Sneak Preview of Issue 113
Natural Learning is not ‘Doing Nothing’
Confession time: Sometimes I get ‘the guilts’ and think I’m not really educating my children at all. This feeling usually creeps in following someone’s wide-eyed response when I tell them that I home educate.
“Wow, I could never do that! You must be so organised!”
The overawed responses vary but the words ‘busy’, ‘dedicated’ ‘organised’ and ‘amazing’ crop up fairly often. My guess is you hear this kind of thing too. And then the guilt sets in because these people have entirely the wrong idea about me. They think that I am a super-organised disciplinarian, planning lessons; conscientiously implementing a study routine; supervising progress; correcting work and so on…
I’m not doing any of that stuff! The fact is that most of the time, I’m doing my own thing whilst the kids do theirs. As the clock ticks over 9.00 a.m. here you won’t find me with the dishes and daily washing and cleaning done ready to supervise the day’s school work. In fact it’s quite likely that I am checking my email in my pajamas whilst the kids are still reading in bed. One of them is almost certainly still asleep.
In this issue:
Help Your Child to Wonder – Rachel Carson’s beautiful article on exploring the world with a sense of wonder and reverence.
Home Education: A Choice For Life – Lyn explains that home education is not something you buy. It is a way of life.
When Being a Mum Isn’t Enough – Amy Hollingsworth talks about [...]