Growing Without Schooling Volume 1 (GWS: The Complete Collection)

Holt, John C

ISBN 10: 0985400242 / ISBN 13: 9780985400248

Published by HoltGWS LLC, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Growing Without Schooling Volume 1 (GWS: The Complete Collection)
• Publisher: HoltGWS LLC
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985400242
• ISBN 13: 9780985400248
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

After years of working to change schools from within—testifying before Congress and addressing audiences around the world about how to make schools better places for children—John Holt founded Growing Without Schooling magazine in 1977 to support self-directed education and learning outside of school. Each issue is a lively exchange among readers and Holt, packed with useful advice, resource recommendations, and all sorts of legal, pedagogical, and parenting ideas from people who pioneered what we now call homeschooling. John Holt (1983–1985) is the author of How Children Learn and How Children Fail, which together have sold over a million and a half copies, and eight other books about children and learning. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Once a leading figure in school reform, John Holt became increasingly interested in how children learn outside of school. The magazine he founded, Growing Without Schooling (GWS), reflects his philosophy, which he called unschooling. GWS was published from 1977 to 2001 and is the first magazine devoted to homeschooling and self-directed education.

Review

"[John Holt's] little magazine, Growing Without Schooling, was the most useful guide a teacher could ever read. As time passed I began to change my views of homeschooling. I'm still first and foremost working to preserve public education but homeschoolers can be our allies in devising what truly powerful schooling could be like."--Deborah Meier, renowned educator, founder of the small schools movement, MacArthur Fellow, and Professor at New York University, Deborah Meier taught in public schools for over four decades. She is the author of The Power of Their Ideas and Keeping School.