Library

Read all about it! Links and Bibliographies for all ages. . . . . Coming soon!

Meanwhile I hope you will enjoy:

• Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etinne Wenger
• Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger.

  I’ve found the Communities of Practice perspective to be a wonderful tool for thinking about what education, homeschooling, and lifelong learning are really all about.

• Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days: Share a Day with 30 Homeschooling Families, by Nancy Lande.

  This was one of the books we read when we were considering homschooling our kids. The sheer variety of homeschooling practices among these families is breathtaking — and encouraging! A must must-read if you are considering whether homeschooling is right for your family, or if you are curious as to what all this is about.

• Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves, by Alison McKee.

  A great account of one family’s journey to a different way of thinking about education, and the source of one of my favorite quotes: “Slowly, without our realizing it, we had discovered a profound truth about education: we did not need to know everything, we simply had to have a desire to help one another learn together.” So true! and for more than just homeschooling….

• unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation, as well as the invaluable-for-self-educators FactCheck.org.

  Don’t miss their lesson plans at FactCheckED.org!

• The Book Whisperer: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, by Donalyn Miller, as well as the Book Whisperer Blog.

  Miller is a 6th grade teacher who knows that a love of reading reading is caught from enthusiasm and abundance, that “no day is wasted. We can always move forward by reading and writing” — and who has the research to back it up.