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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Vintage) by Neil Postman
Violin Virtuosos (Strings Backstage)
Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series by Charlotte Mason
MY FATHER'S DRAGON by Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser
Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams
Moccasin trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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About meA homeschooling family with an artist and a patent attorney/runner. Who else would own some of these books?
About my libraryWe try to keep our collection relatively small, since we are apartment dwellers, but it's been growing a lot ever since we had new bookshelves built and our daughter got old enough to read a lot on her own. Plus, we have some books in storage in another state.
I try to only buy books that I actually plan to read or at least refer to regularly. And many of my favorite books have been library loans, so I don't own them. Yet, when I do buy, I'm very fond of certain authors, illustrators and editions and will go out of my way to find them.
Many of our books are second-hand paperbacks. And I'm fond of old copies of certain books that contain margin notes taken over a period of years. Thus, I've been careful on this site in most cases to find the correct cover image. Some of those ragged books are good friends!
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Here's the article, which was on the Alliance for the separation of school and State website (http://www.schoolandstate.org/news.htm); they got the article from the Guardian UK. I'm sorry I don't know how to put just a little "here" to click, and then go to the article...
(And the book is How Children Learn at Home by Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison)
No School Like Home
by Jessica Shepherd
The Guardian
Posted August 19, 2008
Home education, long dismissed as a hippy option, can be 'astonishingly efficient', says a new study. Jessica Shepherd meets the children who don't go to school.
Excerpt: Home education is just an extension of good parenting, Thomas and Pattison argue. "School itself necessarily curtails such parental contribution." Why, they ask, do we as a society assume that formal learning needs to take over beyond the age of five? "There is no developmental or educational logic behind the radical change in pedagogy from informal to formal when children start school," they say.
Contrary to expectations, the home-educated children had no difficulty entering formal education, the authors found. The informal curriculum is "as good a preparation as any" for college, university or academic correspondence courses, they say. "The young people had the personal skills to make the transition with apparent ease."
Merry Christmas!
posted by SaintSunniva at 12:26 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2008