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Now Available! Life Learning - the
book...
We've collected some of the best essays from back issues of
Life Learning
magazine in a new book that describes both the philosophy and the experience
of life learning/radical unschooling. It is a great introduction for those
new to the idea, and a welcome friend for those who loved
Life Learning
magazine.
Order now. |
Read every issue of Life Learning
Magazine online
(see bottom of page
to order back issues in print)
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May/June 2008
Daring to Drop Out of High School, Prospering in the Real
World, Culture & Community, Effective Communication, What
You Don't Know Matters Most |
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March/April 2008
When Unschooling Feels More Like Unparenting, A
Four-Year-Old Teaches Herself to Read, Don't Worry About
College by John Taylor Gatto, Learning About Life From
Death, David Albert's Elements of Intelligence |
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January/February 2008
Learning With Special Needs Children, Letting Go of Teachable
Moments, Second Thoughts About High School, Where Curiosity
Leads, Being a Real Worker in the Real World, Perfection is
the Enemy of Excellence, Labels
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November/December 2007
Free School or No School?, Learning in the Real World,
Honoring Unschooling Pioneer Nancy Plent, Redefining Success,
Secret Spaces, A Grandmother Reflects on Unschooling, The
Problems With Labels |
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September/October 2007
(Sold Out in
Print)
Healing the Ugliness of a Schooled Society, Self-Reliance,
Doing Their Best Naturally, The Educator's Dilemma, Going to
College, Intervening With Other Parents, Adolescence Isn't
Hard |
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July/August 2007
(Sold Out in
Print)
What We Should Know, Living for the Future, Learning to Swim,
Achieving Full Personhood, A Dad Learns Some Lessons from
Unschooling, Does Early Learning in School Cause Corrupted
Vision?, The Importance of Helping Teens
Learn Responsibility, Pressure to Attend College |
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May/June 2007
(Sold Out in Print)
The Value of Unstructured Play, Understanding Children’s
Perception of Time, Integrating into the Mainstream Adult
World...or Not, Learning to Read, Interview With Life Learning’s
Editor, The Case Against Teaching |
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March/April 2007
What Really Matters with David H. Albert/Joyce Reed, Learning
Informally by Alan Thomas, Looking at the Chaos of Learning,
Is There a Writer in There?, Challenging Teachers to Become
Self-Directed, Peer Pressure, Learning With the Simpsons |
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January/February 2007
Fear of the TV Beast, The Many Subtle Faces of
Authority, Are We Really Protecting Our Children? When
They Grow Up, Unschooling Our Dog, Low Marks for Good Grades,
Raising Peaceful Warriors
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November/December
2006
(Sold Out in Print)
The Unschooling Grandparent,
Giving Up the Gold Stars - an Unschooling Dad Searches for his
Passion, The Labyrinth of Unschooling, Learning in a
Democratic School, In Praise of Average, When Children Demean
Each Other |
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September/October
2006
Living the Language You Learn, A Single Mom Unschools (part
3), Following a Child's Lead, Studying Black Unschooling, When
Adults Disagree, Bedtime Struggles, From Unschooling to the
Corporate World |
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July/August
2006
(Sold Out in Print)
The Stress of Large Groups, Living Mindfully, A University
Education From Life, Unlearning Literary Analysis, Children
and Power, Emotional Intelligence, Learning Values Without
Coercion, The Musical Child |
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May/June 2006
A Young Child Learns From Life, An Unschooling Former Teacher
Learns From Her Mistakes, Midwifing Deschooling Parents, What
Really Matters?, There is no Right Way, Avoiding Stereotyping
Kids, Saying No, Celebrating Choices
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March/April
2006
A Teen Goes to School, Whose Goal is it Anyway?, Homeschoolers
Repopulate Communities, Replacing Non-Coercion With Positive
Consent, Nurturing the Ability to Focus, A Second-Generation
Homeschooling Mother
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January/February
2006
Learning to Build, Still Learning After All Those Years,
Unintentional Learning in an Intentional Community, Single
Parent Unschooling, Acts of Enclosure, Talking to Learn,
Wanting to Go to School, Unschooled Adult Now Flourishes in
Business
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November/December 2005
(Sold Out in
Print)
Living and Learning in the Real World and Following Rules,
Studying for a PhD After Deschooling at Age 13, Expectations,
Maximizing Creativity, Learning to Read Without Coercion, A
Parent Confronts Her Control Issues in Order to Unschool |
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September/October 2005
(Sold Out in
Print)
Not Attending College by John Taylor Gatto, The SelfDesign
Learning Plan, The Frontier Spirit of the Heart, Learning
Spanish in Costa Rica, Talking to Children About Death, Building
an Autonomous Learning Environment, Writing a Test |
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July/August 2005
(Sold Out in Print)
Living Unschooling With Sandra Dodd, Education Fit for a
Democracy, Becoming More Autonomous Parents and Educators,
Dyslexia, More on Cleaning up the Mess, The Fear of Tears,
24-year-old Former Unschooler Graduates From College |
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May/June 2005
(Sold Out in Print)
Learning Life Skills, A Second Language, Learning From Lunch,
Taking Risks and Breaking Rules, Children in Nature, The Gift of
Dyslexia, When Your Toddler Drives You Nuts, Learners in
Control, An Unschooled 20-year-old Gets a Job |
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March/April 2005
An Unschooling Landscape, September Scholar, Resources for
Learning by Living, Natural Fields of Vision, Nurturing
Creativity, Some Educational Superstitions of Our Time, Who
Should Clean Up the Mess?, The Right to be Odd. |
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January/February 2005
(Sold Out in Print)
Learning Math Without Being Taught, Careers in the Arts,
Internal Rewards, Unschooling Humor, Nurturing Everyday Genius
with John Taylor Gatto, Celebrating “Graduation”, Learning to
Play Peacefully Together |
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November/December
2004
(Sold Out in Print)
Choosing to Participate, Seeking Peace and Finding Curiosity,
Restructuring Education, Rules versus Principles, Slow to Get
Ready to Go, Competitive Learning, The Learning Power of
Laughter
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September/October 2004
(Sold Out in Print)
Legacy for Grandchildren, Learning from Storytelling, Making
History Live, Learning from Video Games, Learning Manners from
Children, Why Parental Authority Doesn't Work
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July/August 2004 (Sold Out in Print)
The Evolution of a Life Learner, Freedom or Control? The Right
to Vote, Supporting Budding Independence, The Art of Educational
Illusions, The Benefits of Boredom, The Family Bubble, Dr. Pat
Montgomery |
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May/June 2004
(Sold Out in Print)
Living Science, The Unprocessed Child Goes to College, Natural
Reading, Computers for Kids, Learning Self-Confidence, Resisting
Consumerism, Why People Learn Best Outside of School, Roots and
Shoots |
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March/April 2004
(Sold Out in Print)
Acquiring Reading, Discussion Circles, Learning Love of the
Natural World, Parenting Under the Fire of Criticism, The Truth
about ADHD, Spin-offs Not Outcomes, Interview With Grace
Llewellyn, Beyond Academics, Learning Math from Life |
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January/February 2004
(Sold Out in Print)
Kids Learning on the Job, Mentors, Did Einstein’s Mommy Worry?
The Benefits of Quitting, Staying Focused to Learn Mathematics,
Socialization – All I Really Need to Know I Learned at Home,
Keeping it in the Family |
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November/December
2003
(Sold Out in Print)
An Unschooler in School, Learning Creative Thinking, Safe at
Home After 9/11, Learning Through Play, Single Parent
Unschooling, A Question of Testing, The Myth of Experts
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September/October 2003
(Sold Out in
Print)
College Credit for Life Experiences, Why Testing Doesn't Work,
How Children and Adults Define Learning, The Language of
Learning, Learning to Swim, Trusting Little Minds With Big
Subjects, What is Wrong with Curriculum-based Education |
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July/August 2003
(Sold Out in Print)
Special Needs Child, Patience to Teach Yourself a New Skill, A
15-year-old “Rises Out” of School, Deschooling a Parent, Dealing
With Parental Anger, Letting Them Make Their Own Decisions,
Learning Academics
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May/June 2003
(Sold Out in Print)
Defining Education, Learning with the Scientist Who Found the
Titanic, On the Road to Deschooling Myself, The Flow of
Self-Directed Learning, Admitting to Uncertainty, Looking Past
the Behavior, Unlearning Manners |
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March/April 2003 (Sold Out in
Print)
Reading When You’re Ready, How Expectations
Affect Our Learning, Learning About School, Unschooling With a
Home Business, To Praise or Not to Praise, Beyond Common Sense
Parenting, The Need to Inspire |
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January/February 2003 (Sold Out in Print)
When the Mentor Gets Mentored, Who Owns English?, Conversations
With Adults Who Learned at Home, Drawing & Literacy, Combining
Unschooling With Making a Living, Time tabling Autonomy, Find
Balance |
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November/December
2002
(Sold Out in Print)
Supporting Self-Education, Learning Styles, Unschooling Walden Style, Master's Degree via Independent Study, To Praise
or Not to Praise - Part 1, Spelling With Color, Coercion
Defeats Learning
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September/October
2002
An Unschooled Teen Builds a House, When Your Children Question
Your Choices, Creating a Safe Reading Environment,
How Home Educated Students Adjust to School, Graduate Skills
Learned at Home, Sharing, Learning From Babies
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July/August
2002
(Sold Out in Print)
What’s Right With Being Wrong, Are There Holes in Their
Education?, Sharing Elder Knowledge, The Scribble Hypothesis,
Visual Thinking Strategies, Helping Siblings Get Along, Pat
Farenga on John Holt |
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May/June
2002
(Sold Out in Print)
Implicit Versus Explicit Learning, College & Unschooling,
Young Adult Unschooling Success Stories, Profile of
Storyteller Jay O’Callahan, Deschooling a Parent, Was
Beethoven Social? Journaling
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March/April 2002
(Sold Out in Print)
Rethinking Self-Education, Creating a Cooperative Learning
Center, Learning Disabilities, Trusting Your Children to Learn,
Learning to Write with Susannah Sheffer, Inspiration from John
Taylor Gatto
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From the
Archives
What Really Matters: Workbooks
a conversation between David Albert & Joyce Reed
What Really Matters: Parts is Parts
a conversation between David Albert & Joyce Reed
What Really Matters: The Curriculum of Beauty a
conversation between David Albert & Joyce Reed
I Was Unschooled
by Michele Stille
Life Learning Culture & Community
by Eva Swidler
The Therapy Fund
by Nathanael Schildbach
Talking About Life Learning
by Sandra Rakovac
Talking About Life Learning - Interview with
Editor Wendy Priesnitz
by Sandra Rakovac
The Einstein Syndrome & Other Labels
by Naomi Aldort
The Benefits of Boredom
by Wendy Priesnitz
Hope for Heliophobes
by Jim Strickland
The Educator's Dilemma
by Dan Grego
Challenging Assumptions in Education
by Wendy Priesnitz
Seeing Through Rose Colored Glasses
by Junyee Wang
What is Life Learning?
by Rachel Johnson and Jane Van Benthusen
Understanding Unschooling Terminology
by Wendy Priesnitz
Understanding Life Learning
by Wendy Priesnitz
Unschooling Blog Directory
Free Schools and Learning
Exchanges Directory
Listen to an interview with Editor Wendy Priesnitz on Inspired
Parenting Radio
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