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

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

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

Featured Articles:

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

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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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

Please note there is also a free PDF of issue 103 available

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

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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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

We have sold out of this magazine but a PDF version is available in the PDF section of the shop

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

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

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

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?

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

By Clare Cole
342 pp A4 format paperback
Published: 1998

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

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

It will play on PCs.

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

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

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

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

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

This product has sold out but a downloadable version is available in the PDF section.

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

By Alan Thomas and Jane Lowe

164pp

What Did You Do Today? Nothing Really By Brooke Cowley

Confessions of an Unschooling Cheerleader By Marshall Cowley

Missing the Milestones By Susan Wight

Finding Ideas, Not Discouragement By Barbara Frank

Refreshments of Lake Perserverance by Lizzy Gardner

New Home Educators Corner – Socialisation

Moree Nanny By Lizzy Gardner

Rotary International Programs By Elissa Marriott

The Bubble Show Report By Simon, Samuel and Benjamin Mollema

Reading – The Easiest and Best Homeschool Curriculum By Diane Flynn Keith

Ancient Greece Comes to Maldon (photospread by Sharee Cordes)

In Our Group – Bairnsdale Home Educators By Cynthia McStephen

Fibre Optics at Home

Plus are regular sections

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…

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

Articles:

• Part Time School by Cynthia McStephen
• When Full-Time Schooling isn’t Working by Sue Minto
• Biodiversity: Building Skills by Garden Investigation by Jeanie Clark
• Araluen 12 years on – photo feature by Dora Berenyi
• Our Other Lives – photo feature by Dora Berenyi
• One Hundred and Thirteen Tomatoes by Rebecca Funk
• Science Resources for Teens by Susan Wight
• Home-ed: The Myths, The Magic, The Mayhem by Jess Pritchard
• NAPLAN for home educators? By Carol Goudie
• Joining the Camp Scene by Jess Pritchard
• Wildthings Camp - photospread by Sharee Cordes
• The Nature of Learning by Kylie Robertson
• Wildthings Camp Report by Pete Matthews
• Yay for Home - new column by Shae Reynolds
• Home Education: 40 Years Old by Rosanne Trevaskis
• Open House by Kathy Major

Subscribe to Otherways for a year for $20.00 and receive access to downloadable screen quality PDF issues rather than printed copies of Otherways via mail.

Includes 4 issues of Otherways PDF.

Great for overseas members – no postage cost involved.
You receive links to where you can download the new issue each quarter.

Screen quality PDFs can be printed but the quality of photos and graphics is lower.

August – October 2010

February – April 2011

Articles:

• Life Long Learning By Bill Ellis
• You Have Homeschool Hair
• Auditory Processing Problems By Dawn Matthews
• Freedom By Jess Pritchard
• Creating Our Convict Settlement By Jackie Crosby
• Nobody Told Me that I’d Get the Independent Kids I Wanted By Barbara Frank
• From Biodiversity to Forests in 2011 By Jeanie ClarkInvestigating
• Young Children’s Perceptions of Home Ed By Donna Broadhurst
• Dumbing It Down By Amanda King
• They’re a Weird Mob: Blaise Pascal By Kevin Lees
• Mad About Science: The Super Cold Bag Experiment
• Grampians Camp Photos
• Teen End of Year Social Photospread
• The Excursion Factor Photos

Plus our 2011 Home Ed Camp Planner
and all our regular sections:

• Dick and Jane
• Letters from Home
• Yay for Home
• Sound Bites: Looking Back
• Tips and Tricks: Home Ed On a Budget
• Colita’s Couch
• Home Ed Bookshelf
• The Age of Reason
• Home Ed Kids
• Hoem Ed Calendar & Regular Events
• Network News

You can purchase this issue for just $10 plus postage or join HEN and either receive Otherways four times a year by mail for $40 or access to a year’s downloadable issues for $20.

Subscribe to Otherways for a year for $20.00 and receive access to downloadable screen quality PDF issues rather than printed copies of Otherways via mail.

Includes 4 issues of Otherways.

Great for overseas members – no postage cost involved.
You receive links to where you can download the new issue each quarter.

Screen quality PDFs can be printed but the quality of photos and graphics is poor.

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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

This product is a screen quality PDF file. After purchase, you will be sent login details and a password to download it from the PDF section of our site.

Featured Articles:

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

This is  a PDF version of  issue 106. After you purchase it, you will be sent details on how to download it from the PDF section of our site.

Do you love the look of Otherways and want to take them all?

Now you can.

This pack includes issues 100-130 and postage

Issues 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 119  and 126 are PDF versions included as part of your Otherways Addict’s Pack – all other issues are paper magazines which will be posted out to you

But wait there’s more! We don’t have any steak knives but we will throw in the PDF version of Otherways Revisited – a collection of all our 2003 articles (covering issues 95-98).

Before purchasing this item, please note that HEN membership does include access to our PDF archive so, if you are joining but would still like to pick up hard copy back issues, the Otherways Hardcopy Pack may be more suitable for you. 

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

This is  a downloadable PDF file. When you purchase you will be sent details of how to access it.

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

This is a downloadable screen quality PDF version of the magazine. After purchase you will be sent details on how to access it.

Feature: University Access:

Getting In by Susan Wight
Postcards from Uni and the Pathways
Parental Perspective
Life After School by Martina McNeil

Articles:

Livin’ on the Road by Amy Page
Pottery at Tallarook by Kathryn Marks
Home Ed Camps Over the Years by Dora Berenyi
“You Home Educate? Now that’s a Big Job!”by Cynthia McStephen
Educating Square Pegs: Tips for Dyslexiaby Dawn Matthews
River Red Gums – IYF by Jeanie Clark
Home Ed Profile: The McAwesome Familyby Faye Underhill
Eat Your Greens by Vanessa Meckes
Mind the Gap by Diane Flynn Keith
They’re a Weird Mob: Sonya Kovalesky by Kevin Lees

Photo Pages:

Phillip Island Camp
Raymond Island Camp
Warrnambool Camp
Roar N Snore
Rainbow Divas Camp

Plus all our regular sections including a Home Ed Kids and Age of Reason for teenagers

November 2010 – January 2011
Articles:

• A Permaculture Education by Jackie Crosby
• The Joy of Being a Kid in Water by Mark Bachmann
• Choosing to Unschool My Children by Sarah McLean
• Your Child Should Be Doing This By Now by Barbara Frank
• Education in the Kitchen by Vanessa Meckes
• Home Based Education Effectiveness by Roland Meighan
• Dinner Conversation by Susan Wight
• Who Am I? By Geoffrey Barron
• Biodiversity: Newcomers, Invaders, Losses and Action by Jeanie Clark
• Exploring Biodiversity for National Science Week by Jeanie Clark
• Home Ed Formal Photos
• Tree Top Adventure Spread by Sharee Cordes
• Snow Camp Photos
• Dyspraxia by Dawn Matthews
• Maths Strategies and Games by Jane Berry
• They’re a Weird Mob: Evariste Galois by Kevin Lees
• Geelong Home Educators

This is  a downloadable PDF file. When you purchase you will be sent details of how to access it

Feature: Home Ed in the Cyber World

At Home in the Cyber World by Kevin Roberts
Computer Time by Sharee Cordes
Teaching Kids to Identify and Avoid Scams by Robert Wight

Articles
Yes, My Grown Homeschooled Kids Are Odd by Diane Flynn Keith
Who Needs School by Wes Beach
Are Homeschooled Siblings Closer Than Schooled Siblings? by Brandy Madison
Left Handedness: When Being Left Isn’t Always Write by Jill WrightFive Must-Have Supplies by Barbara FrankLivin’ on the Road: Houseboat on the Murray by Amy PageADD: A Convenient Diagnosis by Chaley-Ann Scott
Chemistry Models Link to Forests by Jeanie Clark
Your Hand in Mine by Anne Hall
Otherways is 30 years old
Australian History – Boring? by Janette Cassey Ingham
They’re a Weird Mob (mathematicians series final) by Kevin Lees

Photo Pages:
Otway Ranges Camp by Dora Berenyi
Portsea Camp Photospread by Sharee Cordes
Renascent Events by Simon Mollema
Plus all our regular features including Home Ed Kids section and The Age of Reason for teenagers

November 2011 – January 2012

Articles:
Some Superstitions in Education by Roland Meighan
Ladder of Doubt by Marnie Black
Life After Home Ed by Beverley Paine
Two New Bikes by Veronika Sophia Robinson
How to Live Before You Die by Steve Jobs
Right on Target by Stephanie Pollock
Christmas: The Unplanned Theme by Jackie Crosby
Home Ed Profile: The Tranzillo Family by Faye Underhill
Learning Together by Lauren Carter
History by Terry Barca
Art in Home Ed by Louise Kirby
Chemistry in and from the Forests –  IYF by Jeanie Clark
Wimmera Group in Water Week by Jeanie Clark
Good Things Happen When We Let Go by Barbara Frank
Photo Pages: Sovereign Hill & Falls Creek Snow Camp Camps

Plus our regular sections

Feature: Travelling and Home Education
Unschooling on the Road by Lainie Liberti
Livin’ on the Road: Swimming with the Sealions by Amy Page
The Trip that Made the Difference by Jessica Bowers
The Value of Matches by Lauren Fisher
Holiday Learning by Jackie Crosby
Four Dots on the Map by Karina Baigrie
Our World School: An End of Year Report by Theodore Sutcliffe
Articles:
Pathway to a Future by Lynda Russell
Capturing Natural Learning as it Happens by Natalie Atherden
From Day One We Learn by Amy Conley
Madelaine: Home Grown Farmer by Colita Scott
Living in Harmony with Nature by Jeanie Clark
How I Worked in Live Sound by Gerard Hook
TV and Food by Jess Pritchard
Having Fun with Art History by Catherine Durant
Science Talent Search by Jeanie Clark
Geelong Home Educators’ Facebook Page
Film Festival Gets Funding by Amanda King
Photo Pages:
Activities by Dora Berenyi
The Grampians Camp Photospread by Dora Berenyi

Plus all our regular features

How Do Kids Really Learn to Write by Patricia Zaballos

Madness, Sanity, Greed and the Art of Playing Piano by Rod Hough

Life Lessons from a Bike Trip by Nancy Vogel

Early University Entry by Indigo Orton

New Life on the Road by Lisa Wood

Pathway to Engineering by Melissa Lohr

Teaching Your Children Naturally by home ed veteran,Wendy Morriss

Thinking About Natural Learning by Lisa Branigan

Keeping a Journal by Lynda Russell

Learning in France and Italy by Cheryl Foster

Farming, Sustainability and Science by Jeanie Clark

HMB Endeavour Replica Tour by Vicki Timlin

Home Education and Behaviour by Cynthia McStephen

A Fishing Trip Ticked All the Boxes by Jackie Crosby

Plus photos from the Warrnambool, Phillip Island, Nelson and Albury camps and all our regular features

Feature: The Joy of Reading
Sharing the Joy of Reading by Susan Wight
Turning the Pages by Brendan Bachmann
At Home with Reading by Alan Thomas
My Love of Reading by Ben Wagner
I’m Always Reading by Benjamin Mollema
The Otherways Guide to Fictional Home Ed by Susan Wight
What Reading Means to Me by Steven Witney
Discovering Reading by Samuel Mollema
‘Love2Read’ Especially About Nature by Jeanie Clark
Why Do I Read? by Jasmine Vermeer
Read, Read, Read by Simon Mollema

Articles
Film Factor Report and photos by Amanda King
The Three Stages of Unschooling by Kelly Lovejoy
We Unschool After School by Sarah Murray Langford
Visting Canberra: Top Tips by Maree Baker 33
Five Important Things I’ve Learned from Home Education

Photospread:
Exploring Lakes Entrance by Dora Berenyi

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

A full year of fabulous issues consisting of printed copies of issues  127, 128, 129 and 130.

November 2012- January 2013.

In this issue we look at some interesting developments in Unschooling

Articles:

Unschooling is Not Unparenting by Susan Wight

Am I an Unschooler? by Shae Reynolds

Unschool Rules and Regulations by Lauren Carter

Helping Our Kids Find a Career by Barbara Frank

Mummy Time-out by Chaley-Ann Scott

Waking Up to Hear the Music by Genevieve Adorno

Learning about Nature from Images by Jeanie Clark

Home Ed Fast Facts with Sue Minto

Engineering an Opportunity by Miriam & Simon Mollema and Kaiden Hamilton

Living Maths by Jean Watson

The Otherways Guide to Fictional Home Ed. Part 2

Plus photos from the 2012 Snow Camp and Renascent Events together with all your favourite regular sections.

Current PDF members can download their copy by logging in and visiting the PDF members’ page.

May-July 2013

Articles:

• Real Play vs iPlay by Colita Scott

• Preparation for a Changing World by Asphysxia
• Home Educating Preschoolers in South Korea by Miju Lodge
• The Journey by Belinda Moore
• Home Ed Winter Readathon with Grace Ephraums
• Growing the Person, not Making the Person by Ilka Tampke
• Does Home Education Let Feminists Down? By Susan Wight
• The World Comes to Us by Maree Baker
• Homeschool Connections Jess Pritchard interviews Anabel Matcham
• Theory and Practicalities of Career Development by Jo Prosser
• The Time Machine by Fiona (The Expeditioner)
• The Avengers: A Short Unit Study by Kathleen Humble
• Shape Sleuths at the Creek by Jeanie Clark
• The Otherways Guide to Fictional Home Ed by Susan Wight

As well as all our usual sections.

February – April 2013

Articles:

Why its Time for a Class Revolt by David Loader & Simon Whatmore
Are We the Revolt? by Jeanie Clark
Everything’s Up For Grabs by Judy Ephraums
Home Education has Changed Us by Anne Richards
Home Education:
Lifestyle Choice, Not a Religion by Beverley Paine
My Wild Ride by Danelle Filby
Project Unschool Peru with Laini Liberti
Autumn Ideas by Jackie Crosby
What Australian Curriculum by Jeanie Clark
The Art Process by Sharee Cordes
Wimmera Home Educators: Farmlands Report by Jeanie Clark
Favourite Card and Board Games by Sharee Cordes
From Literacy to Numeracy in Nature by Jeanie Clark
The Otherways Guide to Fictional Home Ed. Part 3
Maths in Nature by Jeanie Clark