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Free Range Learning
How Homeschooling Changes Everything
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Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This datafrom neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovatorsturns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The books factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free...
Free Range Learning presents eye-opening data about the meaning and importance of natural learning. This datafrom neurologists, child development specialists, anthropologists, educators, historians and business innovatorsturns many current assumptions about school-based education upside down. The books factual approach is balanced by quotes and stories from over 100 homeschoolers from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Mexico, India and Singapore. These parents and kids are the true authorities on alternative learning. Written for interested parents and educators, Free Range Learning will also encourage and excite those who want their children to have the benefits, but who are timid to approach homeschooling. This is the only book anyone needs to make the choice and start the process of homeschooling children, and is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. Read more books than average. More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Free Range Learning presents the simple choice to homeschool as something much more significant than a homespun method of education. Weldon asks us to consider this choice as participation in a cultural shift toward redefining success; and as a form of collective intelligence with major implications for the future of education. Children are naturally free range learners, she says. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process. Free Range Learning demonstrates: that children and teens can best be nurtured outside of restrictive educati