Table of Contents - Life Learning July/August 2012

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Table of Contents - July/August 2012

Editorial by Wendy Priesnitz

The $120 Swim Lesson by Judy Arnall
Should you push children to go to lessons they dislike or let them drop them?

The Conference by Kelly Hogaboom
Understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing are reasons to attend an unschooling conference.

Reflections on a Daydreamer by Ellen Rowland
The importance of giving our children time to reflect, explore, and dream.

Cover Feature: Ovum Organum and The Killer Shrews by David H. Albert
Science as a subversive activity.

Slow Learning, Science, Nature, and Life by Wendy Priesnitz
School has given science a bad rap; here's how unschooled kids can learn it without even knowing.

Focus on Media
Resources about alternatives in learning and parenting.

The Back Page
The principle of productive failure.

The term life learning refers to a form of homeschooling that trusts children and avoids the trappings of school. It is sometimes called unschooling, radical unschooling, or natural learning. Life learning children live and learn naturally, with the support of their families, based on their own interests and their own timetables, and without curriculum, tests, or grades. Go here, here and here for a more comprehensive explanation.

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