Homeschooling Discussion & Experiences #1

[banshi]

Hi again!
I understand the baby thing - I have an 11 month old daughter and this year has flown by!!

Well I'm not sure if you will find many HS books in shops - I haven't - but I live in regional NSW (Orange atm, Lismore previously). I've found them online and at HS conferences - perhaps your bookshop could order them in. This website is a good place to start: Always Learning Books Catalogue Getting Started with Homeschoolin.

I'm giving you a link to a great essay about school and homeschooling by John Gatto Taylor - it's interesting reading and succinct: The Odysseus Group People's Education Debate & Discussion Center

This Aus website seems to have a good collection of books too! (not sure if they sell!) Kids First Australia: Book List - Recommended Reading

Another fantastic book that I personally wish everyone would read is Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich - when reading this one must make allowances for the period in which it was written
(early 1960s - pre computer age) but it is truly remarkable and revolutionary !

This is an interesting article that I just found: Theresa Willingham, "The Humanism Behind Homeschooling," for the journal of the Friends of Religous Humanism

Hope I'm not overloading you!

Have fun!!!

Where are you?