Archive for the 'natural learning' Category
arun on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: education, empowerment & trust, homeschooling, inspiration, looking out, natural learning, newbies, others wisdom, reviews & interviews, unschooling
Jan Hunt director of the Natural Child Project and her unschooled son Jason are coeditors of the soon to be released The Unschooling Unmanual. This compilation of eleven essays will be available in early Feb, 2008.
I managed to get my mitts on an advance digital copy of the book and have written an indepth review […]
arun on Dec 07 2007 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, education, homeschooling, natural learning, newbies, unschooling
That is what I yelled out to my family as we drove down a street in Launceston, Tasmania and saw the creature pictured left. It seemed like all my family, even my 19 month old son, rolled their eyes as Anne politely pointed out, “It’s a llama.”
I still argue that the car was moving fast, […]
arun on Oct 10 2007 | Filed under: 2 to 4 year old, 4 to 8 year old, laugh, natural learning, unschooling
Conversations with M, our daughter sometime remind me of a river.
It flows – crashing and cascading at one moment, slowly sauntering the next. These discussions seem to meander in all sorts of directions driven by her insightful and often ecclectic waves of questions and observations.
That to me is one of the amazing things […]
arun on Jul 13 2007 | Filed under: 4 to 8 year old, family diary, natural learning, newbies, stages & ages, unschooling
When I started this site I wrote some Quick Definintions of a range a terms from unschooling to deschooling.
Since that time we have been living those terms more and more and as a result my children have been helping me understand them more. I am constantly learning new definitions, here are some that I learnt […]
arun on Jul 02 2007 | Filed under: 0 to 2 year old, empowerment & trust, natural learning, parenting, unschooling
This morning I realised that I was in the presence of a pioneer! More than that he was a scientist, an explorer, dare I say… perhaps the most intrepid adventurer of our time.
What’s more it happened in our house… in our kitchen no less!
For that was where I was in the presence of Z, […]
arun on May 29 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, empowerment & trust, homeschooling, natural learning, parenting, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
The first article I wrote when I first launched this site An Unschooling Journey from Control to Connection has now been printed in Kindred magazine, although I have not seen a copy yet. I love that mag, but the readership is very Steiner/ Waldolf based and I’m not sure what the reaction will be […]
arun on Apr 18 2007 | Filed under: *favourites*, education, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, newbies, unschooling
M & I recently made a 2 hour drive both ways to & from Brisbane to see “the Fairies” live. M got dressed as a fairy especially.
Had a fantastic chat on the way back to Byron Bay. Started with M (who is 5yrs) asking why we could drive past the other cars and me explaining […]
arun on Apr 12 2007 | Filed under: control & connection, education, empowerment & trust, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, nvc & pet, parenting, steiner/ waldolf, unregulating food, tv, unschooling
When we first started this site one of the first articles i posted was “An Unschooling Journey – from Control to Connection”, which described our own journey into unschooling. It was written for an excellent magazine based in Australia called Kindred Magazine (formerly Byrons Child).
They have indicated that they might use it for the June […]
arun on Apr 06 2007 | Filed under: education, homeschooling, natural learning, others wisdom, unschooling
Thanks to Alan Thomson for allowing permission to reprint his article “What Home Educators can teach the world about Natural Learning” which you can read here…
Alan is an academic and his article describes an interesting journey into unfamiliar realms of education and “learning” over “teaching” for any academic to come to terms with…
arun on Apr 02 2007 | Filed under: education, family diary, homeschooling, natural learning, unschooling
While holidaying with my family we have been getting a lot of concerned questions about our homeschooling choices. Some of the most interesting questions coming from our daughters’ cousins who are 11 & 14 yrs respectively but others too. Too summarise the arguments/ concerns:
- can she still get into uni (particularly things like medicine and […]
