Unschooling Resources
June 13th, 2009 by ToniThis is a list I pulled from the TulsaKids website. There is an article as well that I highly recommend. The author did an outstanding job of not only exploring the lives of two unschooling families but also in keeping an open mind about her topic.
************* BOOKS *************
Learning All the Time
by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201550911
How Children Learn
by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484048
How Children Fail
by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0201484021
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
by John Holt and Patrick Farenga
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0738206946
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better
by John Caldwell Holt
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0525134379
Moving a Puddle and Other Essays
by Sandra Dodd
http://sandradodd.com/puddlebook
Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom, Power And Joy by Naomi Aldort
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1887542329
The Relaxed Home School: A Family Production
by Mary Hood
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0963974009
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life & Education
by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959170
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go To School
by Grace Llewellyn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0962959138
The Homeschooling Handbook
by Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761501924
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom
by Mary Griffith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761512764
The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, Community and Self
by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677140
The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 101 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling’s Most Respected Voices
by Linda Dobson
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0761535705
Homeschooling Our Children; Unschooling Ourselves
by Alison McKee
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0965780627
Deschooling Our Lives
by Matt Hern
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865713421
Parenting a Free Child: An Unschooled Life
by Rue Kream
http://www.freechild.info/
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0865714487
A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls
by Susanna Sheffer
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0867094052
In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child’s Multiple Intelligences
by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1585420514
Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences
by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0452281377
You’re Smarter Than You Think: A Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences
by Thomas Armstrong
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1575421135
For the Children’s Sake
by Susan Schaeffer MacAulay
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/089107290X
Learning At Home: A Mother’s Guide To Homeschooling
by Marty Layne
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0968293824
Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.: Homeschooling and the Curriculum of Love
by David H. Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567513700
Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery
by David Albert
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1567512321
Better Late Than Early
by Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0883490498
School Can Wait
by Raymond & Dorothy Moore
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0842513140
Coloring Outside the Lines
by Roger Schank
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0060930772
(sort of anti-homeschooling, but its message was pro-homeschooling in my opinion!)
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise & Other Bribes
by Alfie Kohn
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0618001816
The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School
by Valerie Fitzenreiter
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0972941606
Growing Without Schooling: A Record of a Grassroots Movement
by John Holt, Susannah Sheffer
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0913677108
The Day I Became an Autodidact
by Kendall Hailey
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0440550130
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
by Frank Smith
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/080773750X
Better Than School: One Family’s Declaration of Independence
by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0943914051
Child’s Work: Taking Children’s Choices Seriously
by Nancy Wallace
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/091367706X
And the Children Played
by Patricia Joudry
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0912766166
With Consent: Parenting for All to Win
by Jan Fortune-Wood
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1900219247
Deschooling Society
by Ivan Illich
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/0714508799
************* PERIODICALS *************
Home Education Magazine: http://www.homeedmag.com/index.html
Live Free, Learn Free:
http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/
Life Learning: http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com
************* WEBSITES *************
Unschooling Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
Unschooling.com:
http://www.unschooling.com (See “Library” & “Message Boards”)
Car Talk Guys:
Education: The Learning of Skills We Will Never Need?
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/
The Education Forum
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/
The New Theory of Learning
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/r-rlast15.html
The Education Forum II
http://www.cartalk.com/content/features/ATC/Education/index2.html
Autodidactic Press:
http://www.autodidactic.com
Libertarian Unschooling:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6529/index1.html
Unschooling Undefined:
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/UnschoolingUndefined.html
Home’s Cool A to Z:
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/methods/Unschooling.htm
Sandra Dodd:
http://sandradodd.com/unschooling.html
Child-led Natural Learning:
http://www.alternative-learning.org
Delight-Driven Learning:
http://home-educate.com/unschooling/index.shtml
Family Unschoolers Network:
http://www.fun-books.com
The Natural Child Project:
http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/earl_stevens.html
AHA Information Page:
http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/info.html
Amy Bell’s Natural Learning:
http://home.rmci.net/abell/
Alfie Kohn:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/articles.htm
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“Is Unschooling Right for You and Your Family?”
Leslie Moyer offers the following list to help determine if unschooling is right for your family:
• Willingness to invest time in your child
•Willingness to research resources for learning experiences
•Cooperation from partner or spouse
•An appreciation of your child’s unique strengths
•Willingness to develop and explore your own passionate interests (be a role model of learning)
•Willingness to rely on direct observation for “proof” of learning
•Have respectful, two-way communication about learning
•Commitment to put your relationship with your child before any educational matter
•Willingness to let go of your own expectations about your child’s adult life
•Ability to let go of pre-conceived notions about what constitutes “education”
•Acceptance of the idea that we don’t have control over what happens in someone else’s brain




