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Table of
Contents May/June 2007
The Editor's Journal - And the Children Played by Wendy Priesnitz -
Unstructured, spontaneous play is crucial to learning. Sadly, it is becoming a
casualty of modern society's frighteningly misguided attempt to better educate
children.
It's About Time by M. Jeanne Yardley - The fear of lost time
felt by many adults is an alternate reality to the daydreaming time we nurture
in children.
The Value of Unstructured Free Play by Carlo Ricci - Children know
how to play and will learn from it...if adults who have forgotten how can stop
interfering with their enjoyment, creativity and imagination.
Play
is Self-Directed Learning by Marty Layne - Children need to explore
the world and to experiment in order to really begin to understand how things
work.
Finding
a Place in the World by Peter Kowalke - How unschoolers create their
adult lives and deal with the mainstream vs alternative lifestyle issue.
Talking
About Life Learning by Sandra Rakovac - An interview with Life
Learning's founder and editor Wendy Priesnitz about her family's learning
adventures in the 1970s and 80s.
What
Really Matters by Joyce Reed & David H. Albert - Musings on the
process by which children learn to read.
The
Case Against Teaching by Naomi Aldort - "Teacheria" is
contagious but washing hands and taking vitamin C won't help. Here's what
will.
Grown Without
Schooling by Peter Kowalke - Giving up predictable comforts and her
family's religion in order to find her own path in life.
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