Selected Articles from Life Learning: The Unschooling Magazine

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The following is a small selection of the many inspirational essays about unschooling, homeschooling, self-directed learning, and life learning that have appeared in Life Learning Magazine since it began in 2002. To read all of our content, please subscribe and enjoy all of our articles...including back issues, current, and upcoming editions.

The Drive to Discover by Laura Grace Weldon	A Provisional Curriculum for When Walking is Taught at School by Dave Butler
From Dissection to Enjoyment: Unlearning Literary Analysis by Suzanne Malakoff	A Life of Learning: Empowering, Trusting, Unschooling by Wendy Priesnitz
Unschoolers Prosper in the Real World by Gaye Chicoine	Unschooling and the Flow of Self-Directed Learning by Amy Spang
Of Swimming & Schooling by Rachel Gathercole	Fear of the TV Beast by Julie Persons
The Educator's Dilemma by Dan Grego	Trying it Out: Learning from a Mentor by Wendy Priesnitz
The Curriculum of Play by John Taylor Gatto	The Therapy Fund by Nathanael Schildbach
Don't Worry About College by John Taylor Gatto	Learning and Living Without Schooling & Coercion by Jan Fortune Wood
The Hall of Mirrors by John Taylor Gatto	Walking a Tightrope: Choosing Balance in a World of Opportunity by J. Ann Lloyd and Erica Gotow
Breaking from the Herd by John Taylor Gatto	Filling in the Dots: What An Unschooling Family Learned From a Test by Suzanne Malakoff
Curriculum Schmiculum by Ann Leadbetter	The Sky is Blue Except When It's Not: The Essential Knowledge Debate by Laura Schuerwegen
Kate & Molly Go To College (After Unschooling) by Ann Leadbetter	Knowledge is Power: An Unschooling Pet Peeve by Nathanael Schildbach
Talking About Life Learning - with Editor Wendy Priesnitz by Sandra Rakovac	Unschooling Helps Children Achieve Full Personhood by Tammy Takahashi
Unschooling in a Multigenerational Home by Christina Nichols	What Do Unschoolers Do All Day? Nine Ways to Facilitate Your Child's Learning By Hope Nilges
Whose Goal is it Anyway? by Pam Laricchia	Unschooling is About Principles Not Rules by Robyn Coburn
A Week in the Life of an Unschooled Teen by Jim Strickland	Dabbling, Digging Deep and Quitting by Lyla Wolfenstein
Unschooling Is Audacious Learning by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko	The Art of Inspiration: The Role Parents Play in Unschooling By Wendy Priesnitz
When Unschooling Feels Like Unparenting by Theresa Shea	Reading With Grace: How An Unschooled Child Learns to Read by Becca Challman
Knowledge & the Cult of Experts by Wendy Priesnitz	Unschooled Teen Learns to Balance Learning by Katherine Michalak
Life Learning Culture & Community by Eva Swidler	Low Marks For Good Grades by Tammy Takahashi
Power to Control by Wendy Priesnitz	Learning Through Play by Beverley Paine
Freedom or Control: Who Decides? by Wendy Priesnitz	Shakespeare Through an Unschooling Lens by Karen Ridd
Unschooling Makes Them Ready for a Changing World by Wendy Priesnitz	Unschooled Children and Power by Lael Whitehead
Eye-Opener: Changing Perspective on the Importance of Reading by Pauline Mary Curley	Living by Consent: Unschooling and the Life Learning Mystery Tour by Jan Fortune-Wood
Zen and the Art of Unschooling Math by Rachel Gathercole	Cooking With What's in the Bag: A CSA Perspective on Unschooling by Carrie Pomeroy
Learning Naturally at Home the Permaculture Way by Beverley Paine	An Unschooling Mom Makes Peace With War Birds by Suzanne Malakoff
The Words We Use: Living as if School Doesn't Exist by Wendy Priesnitz	What Really Matters: Parts is Parts by David H. Albert & Joyce Reed
Stickers by David H. Albert	The Tenth Intelligence by David H. Albert
Unschooling Science by Wendy Priesnitz	Unschooling is Education Inspired by Nature by Wendy Priesnitz
How Unschoolers Can Get Over Math by Anna Hoffstrom	Unschooling and the Principle of Productive Failure by Wendy Priesnitz
Liberate Your Education: Unschooling Isn't One-Size-Fits-All by Susan Wight	Why Aaron Mattered by Lauren Wales

Grown Without Schooling: profiles of adult unschoolers by Peter Kowalke - Ilana Ofgang, jazz musician, age 24 - Laura Brion, musician, urban agriculturalist, age 24 - Brian Walton, librarian, age 27 - Selina Hunt, industrial designer, age 26 - Zoe Blowen-Ledoux, translation business owner, age 26

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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