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Issue 110: Nov 2006

Featured Articles:

Schooling: The Hidden Agenda
Learning All the Time
Research on Home Educating Special Needs Children
Socialization: The Hidden Agenda
Build a Home Lab, Part 2

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Issue 109: Aug 2006

Featured Articles:

Preschool Pressure
Preschool and the Normal Australian Mother
The Preschool Push
Changing Lives (when our children leave home)
Homeschooling: A Feminist Challenge
Teaching All Children to Read
Build a Home Lab, Part 1

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Issue 108: May 2006

Featured Articles:

The New Education Act
The Education Debate
Intelligence, Schools and Failure
Self-directed Education
Gifts of Home Education
Public Lectures as a Home Education Resource

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Set of 2006 issues (Editions 107-110)

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Issue 107: Feb 2006

Steiner Education at Home Special
Featured Articles:

Head, Heart and Hands
Play with your Child?
Waldorf Science
High School Options
Curriculum Resources for Steiner Home Education

Also:

Home Educating Teens
Maths and Science for teenagers at home

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Issue 106: Nov 2005

Featured Articles:

Informal Learning by Alan Thomas
Coping with Hard Times
Learning Science Naturally
Some Ideas for Journal Writing
Victorian Education Act: Changes Afoot

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Issue 103: Feb 2005

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Featured Articles:

Beginning Home Education
Are you Qualified?
Age Segregation is Unnatural
Quality Time
My kids wont let me teach
Teaching Maths
Future Prospects for home learners

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Home Education Network Membership

HEN Membership includes your membership card and Otherways subscription. Membership is for 12 months. Otherways magazine is published four times a year.

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Home Education Network supports home educating families by encouraging and supporting groups of home educators, by organising group activities such as science at Monash and home-ed camps. Home Education Network maintains this web site at (http://www.home-ed.vic.edu.au); runs a phone support service for members and the wider home education community; and researches and publishes Otherways Magazine. Otherways Magazine contains the latest news, research, workshops and events, networking and support group information, letters from families and articles on every aspect of home education from Australia and around the world. We cover all topics in the effort to inspire, inform and encourage. Home Education Network is your home education community, all HEN activities are organised and run by volunteers. Each year brings more informative and inspiring articles in Otherways, as well as more camps and activities and an increasingly dynamic home education community.

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Issue 102: Nov 2004 - Digital Download

This is an Zipped PDF download of the issue.

Featured Articles:

Learning Through Play
Leisure and Education
Bullying: The Daily Grind
Is It ADD?
Is School A Dream of the Past
Homeschooling in 1923
Learning Systems
Further Perspectives from the Next Generation

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Otherways Revisited 2003

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This is a great chance to purchase a full year of Otherways articles in one volume with no advertisements or events.

The articles/topics covered are:

Single Mums Do Home Educate – special feature

Home Ed Dads Speak Out – special feature

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But What if My Child is Dyslexic? Unschooling Is My Job But What About My Life? On whether being a home educating mum means you don't have a life of your own Against School. How Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why by John Taylor Gatto Homeschooling With the Cartwrights a mum reflects on how soft toys have been incorporated into their home education lifestyle So He Drew A moving poem about school by a young boy. Empowered By Homeschooling What mums get out of home education themselves. I Am What I Am a moving piece by the mother of a special needs child Eclectic Heretic Homeschooler about finding your own way to home educate - Natural Learning or Unschooling is not for everyone. Competition - A Negative Force in Education Australian Schooling - a History of Social Control Einstein the Autodidact on Einstein's learning outside school Exams, VCE, University, Cheating etc - a Cynical View The Tests Kids Crave - Young people do want to be tested but not in the school way Ivan Illich: The Original Lateral Thinker Honour Your Child's Need for Solitude Buying a Curriculum Plus: Two Families in Profile: The Sing family and the Mawdsley family give you insights to how home education works in their households. Dear Yakshi - Our questions column Kids centrespread Home Ed Humour Kevin's Science Resource Chat

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Home Education Network Membership Renewal

For Existing Members who are renewing.

HEN Membership includes your membership card and one year’s subscription to Otherways magazine.

If you renew late, your membership will be renewed from the current edition of Otherways. You can purchase back issues seperately if required.

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Membership Benefits: Otherways magazine four times a year;Membership Card; Access to HEN\'s public liability insurance; Subscription to our email notices of events and news; Advertise home education you are organising in Otherways and/or by email notification to members; News of camps, science classes and events; Access to the HEN community; Support HEN\'s voice in advocating for home educators

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Issue 111: Feb 2007

Featured Articles:

Help Your Child to Wonder
Home Education: A Choice for Life
When Being Mum is not Enough
I Have Today
Home Education and Special Needs Research

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Issue 112: May 2007

Featured Articles:

‘I’m a Saboteur’
Mashed Potato Education
Natural Learning in Action
Plato’s Revenge
When Everything is a Mess
Assisting Budding Writers
More Maths Board Games

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Issue 113: Aug 2007

Featured Articles:
Grandparents
The New Education Act
An Unschooling Journey From Control to Connection
Being a Cheerful Rebel
The Hidden Benefits of Sport
Making and Consuming
The Secret Lives of Children
Days of our Lives
Giving Up the Gold Stars

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Issue 114: Nov 2007

Special Feature:

Home Education on a Budget

Articles:
VCE/VET at Neighbourhood Houses
Much too Early (preschool)
What’s Feminism Got to do with Me?
An Encouraging Perspective from the Potter’s Studio
The Power of Parental Expectations
Talking Home Education
Home Education’s Great…but I’m Just Not Up to it

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Set of 2007 issues (Editions 111-114)

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Issue 115: Feb 2008

Special Feature:
Home Education and Divorce
- Divorce-proofing your kids
- Home Education and Family Separation
- Home Education in the Family Court
Articles:
Teaching a Foreign Language
What to do when a Home Education Journey comes to an end.
I was home educated and Just didn’t know it
Making Something Beautiful
Individuals, Households and Families
Where are they now?

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The Why and How of Australian Home Education

PDF file of The Why and How of Australian Home Education by John Barratt-Peacock BA., PGCE., BA., MSc., PhD.

File Size: 30.7 MB
328 Pages

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This is Johns PhD thesis on home education. Published in 1997 it is still considered the most authoritative work on Australian home education. A comprehensive study of the reasons, characteristics and outcomes of Australian home education... insightful, reassuring, informative. Purchasing this product allows you to download the PDF version of the book direct to your computer. You will require Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to open the file. This can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/

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How Do Your Children Grow

By Clare Cole
342 pp A4 format paperback
Published: 1998

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Clare Cole was one of Australia’s earliest modern home educators and a founding member of AERG (the forerunner of HEN). This book is based around Clare’s personal journal and is full of information, ideas and advice for anyone considering home education. It includes a detailed comparison with the curriculum of the local state primary school and details what each of her daughters, Megan and Holly, learned. The book reflects Clare’s belief that children’s education could and should be an extension of their home and family life. Unfortunately Clare passed away in 2001 but is still well-remembered in HEN for the encouragement and support she gave to those embarking on home education. Although How do your Children Grow is, in some areas, dated, Clare’s voice continues to offer advice and encouragement to another generation of home educators.

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John Holt DVD

DVD of a lecture John Holt gave during his visit to Melbourne in 1981

DVD format: PAL (suitable for Australian DVD machines, not American)

Note: Overseas orders will be posted without the DVD box.

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John speaks on a range of topics such as Schools vs Home Education, Socialisation and Time Management

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Issue 116: May 2008

Special Feature: Homeschooling a Child with Special Needs
Articles:
Radical Feminist Mothers and Why we Need Them
How Homeschooling Helped Us Stay Married
A Mathematician’s Lament
I Don’t Even Like Horses
Liam Sing: Brumby Trainer
Institutionalisation and Deschooling
Days of Knights
What Kind of Teacher Are You?
Full Time Work, Full Time Home Education

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Issue 117: August 2008

Special Feature: – Teenagers and Freedom

Let’s Abolish High School by Dr. Robert Epstein
Trashing Teens by Dr. Robert Epstein
Dr Epstein on Home Education
Studying through Open University by Sharee Cordes
A Mathematician’s Lament Part 2 by Paul Lockhart
Uses of Freedom an excerpt from John Holt’s Freedom and Beyond
Feminine, Feminism and Beyond by Isabel Shapcott
Killing Curiosity by Brian Holden
Rainbow Diva’s Camp Photospread by Sharee Cordes
Rainbow Diva’s Camp Report by Deb Ellis
Teaching Benjamin and Zachary to Read by Tammy Drennan
Is it Time for a Teacher Makeover? by Beverley Paine
The True Joy of Learning by Janette Cassey Ingham

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Issue 118: Nov 2008 - Jan 2009

Feature: ADD/ADHD
The Great ADD Hoax by David Keirsey
Ten Tips for Teaching Your Highly Distractible Child by Carol Barier
It’s Time for Some Xtreme Homeschooling by Diane Flynn Keith
Home Educating Teenagers is Not that Hard by Susan Wight
Educating Amelia, an interview with Alison Rowe
Allons Enfants de la Patrie by Grant Triffett
Talking Home Education, an interview with Sandra Herbert
Spring Formal Centrespread
Pets as Teachers by Isabel Shapcott
A Mathematician’s Lament Part 3 by Paul Lockhart
A National Curriculum -What does it mean to Home Educators?
A Creative Mess in a Good Cause by Lizzy Gardner

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Set of 2008 issues (115-118)

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Issue 119: February 2009

Feature: Socialisation
Natural Socialisation by Lyn Saint
Socialisation Snobs by Patrice Lewis

Articles:
Y Games by Dr John Peacock
Oh No It Has Snowballed by Carleen Sing
Teenage Rebellion and the Lack of it by Susan Wight
How to Teach Your Platypus by Carol Barnier
Slave, Servant or Friend: Leena’s Lesson By Dr John Peacock
Opportunistic Learning by Isabel Shapcott
Faces of Naracoorte Centrespread by Sharee Cordes
In Search of the Perfect Curriculum by Diana Waring
Write Around the World by Jeane Clark
Looking at the Future in the Wimmera , a prize-winning essay by Michael Clark
Stanford Wants Our Kids
Exploring Freaky Numbers by Kevin Lees

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Issue 102: Nov 2004

Featured Articles:

Learning Through Play
Leisure and Education
Bullying: The Daily Grind
Is It ADD?
Is School A Dream of the Past
Homeschooling in 1923
Learning Systems
Further Perspectives from the Next Generation

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Otherways 120 May-July 2009

Articles:
The Deprived Child
Family Honour
Sharing the Joy and Pain of Being a Teenager
Confessions of a Spasmodic Homeschooling Mum
Pruning the Brain Branches
Just Dribbling Along
The Language of Learning
Reading Roads
Raising a Reader

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Rickett's Point Excursion Report Warrnambool Photo Spread

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Issue 103: Feb 2005 - Digital Download

This is a FREE downloadable PDF version

Not sure if Otherways is for you? We’ve made this back issue available for free as a sample.  The issue has been condensed slightly to keep the file size to a downloadable size – advertisements and dated material have been removed.

Instructions: Just click ‘add to cart’ and proceed to ‘checkout’. Please enter your details and select ‘pay by cheque/bank deposit’. You will receive an email confirming your order. When we pick up your order, we’ll email the zipped file to you. We are trying to automate this process but, with a zero price, we haven’t quite figured out how to do that yet so please bear with us!

Even though we need you to go through the ‘checkout’ and select the manual payment option, no payment is required for this item.

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Featured Articles: Beginning Home Education Are you Qualified? Age Segregation is Unnatural Quality Time My kids wont let me teach Teaching Maths Future Prospects for home learners

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Otherways 121

Features: Creativity & When Kids Want to Go to School

Do Schools Kill Creativity by Sir Ken Robinson

You Want to What? by Cynthia McStephen

Articles:

Amelia’s Got it Mappedl from the Bendigo Advertiser
Our University Entrance Experience by Joelle Grubb
Work Experienceand Life Skills Combined by Lizzy Gardner
The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down by Will Richardson
Steiner Home Education and Natural Learning by Carol Goudie
Moving, Moving, Moving by Sarah Tuckerman
Limestone Coast Homeschoolers by Sharee Cordes
Portsea Camp Spread by Sharee Cordes
My Dad – My Teacher by Lizzy Gardner
Sound Bites- Cynthia McStephen introduces a new section of Otherways
Resilience of Home Educating Parents by Lyn Saint
Penguin Photography by Michael Clark

Plus our regular features…

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Issue 105: Aug 2005

Featured Articles:

Commemorating John Holt’s anniversary
Learning Maths Naturally
Tertiary Options
Home Education for ADHD: More than Just Avoiding Labels
Asperger’s Syndrome

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Issue 104: May 2005

Featured Articles:

Encouraging Natural Learning
Natural Literacy
Schooling and Commercialism
Reference Resources Reap Rewards
Damage Limitation
Coping with the Education Department
Rousseau

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Issue 101: Aug 2004

Teenager Special
Featured Articles:

Adults Cant You See? (Teenage Suicide and Compulsory Schooling)
Perspectives from the Next Generation (an interview with a grown home learner)
Older Kids leaving school
In School You Are Not Free – by Grace Llewellyn
Home Educating Gifted Children

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Issue 100: May 2004

Celebrating 100 Issues
Featured Articles:

Otherways History
Overseas and Australian Research
Australian Home Education: 25 years on – by John Peacock
Reflections on Life: A Different Research
People Different From Ourselves
Tolstoy

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