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Just Do You!
What is unschooling?
Unschooling is the learning method by which children pursue their own lead as to what they want to learn and when. Unlike schooling or homeschooling, unschooling does not coerce any set curriculum. Learning happens through experience and inquiry in the context of real life, rather than through decontextualized and standardized test taking. In that, unschooling is based on the acknowledgment that there is a difference between education, which comes from the outside at a specific point in time (from Latin educat-, 'led out'), and learning, which is an inward, self-directed, continuous, and life-long ability.
Library
On unschooling:
Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver, Guerilla Learning, How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
Akilah Richards, Raising Free People, Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
Anna Kealoha, Trust the Children: A Manual and Activity Guide for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning
John Holt, Learning All the Time
On children:
Joseph Chilton Pearce, Magical Child
Shin'ichi Suzuki, Nurtered by Love
John Holt, How Children Fail
On math:
Patricia Kenschaft, Math Power: How to Help your Child Love Math, Even if You Don't
Harold Jacob, Math: A Human Endeavor
Charles Seiter, Everyday Math for Dummies
Stephen Slavin, All the Math You'll Ever Need
On history:
David Weitzman, My Backyard History Book
On entrepreneurship:
Adriane Berg and Arthur Bochner, Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids