Unschooled, Kerry Mcdonald
Unschooled, Kerry Mcdonald
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Unschooled
Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom

Author: Kerry Mcdonald, Peter Grey, PhD

Narrator: Lesa Lockford

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019

Synopsis

As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children’s natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public-school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people’s innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.

About Kerry Mcdonald

Kerry McDonald is an education policy writer whose articles have appeared in Forbes, Newsweek, Reason, Education Next, City Journal, and Natural Mother and Green Child magazines and on NPR, among others. She has a BA in economics from Bowdoin College, a master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and is a board member at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. The mother of four never-been-schooled children, she blogs at WholeFamilyLearning.com and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About Lesa Lockford

Lesa Lockford is an experienced voiceover artist and actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. A professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, she teaches courses in voice for the actor, dialects, acting, and performance studies. She is also a writer and performer. Before becoming a teacher, she worked as a professional actor in Great Britain, where she appeared in a variety of roles in television, in film, and on the stage.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Haley on March 26, 2021

The first half of this book was really interesting. Before I read this book I'd heard of unschooling before but didn't understand exactly what it was so I read this out of curiosity. The first half explained it well. The second half was so repetitive that it drove me crazy.......more

Goodreads review by José Antonio on July 20, 2019

Reading Kerry McDonald's Unschooled reminded me my early years as a parent. Despite not being satisfied with the educational system, we accepted with resignation that we had no option for our kids. We tried to choose the "best" school, however mostly the differences were the quality of the people le......more

Goodreads review by Megan on June 25, 2019

I am a parent of 3 kids who is curious about unschooling and I think of myself as open-minded. This book is well-written and has lots of great historical information about education as an institution, though it reads a lot like someone preaching to the choir. The author identifies not a single posit......more

Goodreads review by Betül Bozkurt on May 27, 2021

Okulsuzluk güzellemelerini okuduğum, ufuk açıcı bir kitap oldu🍀......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on February 23, 2020

"We choose not to send our children to school for a reason, so why do we feel the need to replicate that narrow educational approach at home?" p. 40 This quote was exactly what this educator who is "homeschooling" (aka. schooling at home) her teenager needed to hear. Permission to let go and trust my......more

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