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How Children Learn at Home (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.)
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How Children Learn at Home (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.)
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In his "Educating Children at Home", Alan Thomas found that many
home educating families chose or gravitated towards an informal
style of education, radically different from that found in schools.
Such learning, also described as unschooling, natural or
autonomous, takes place without most of the features considered
essential for learning in school. At home there is no curriculum or
sequential teaching, nor are there any lessons, textbooks,
requirements for written work, practice exercises, marking or
testing. But how can children who learn in this way actually
achieve an education on a par with what schools offer? In this new
research, Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison seek to explain the
efficacy of this alternative pedagogy through the experiences of
families who have chosen to educate their children informally.Based
on interviews and extended examples of learning at home the authors
explore: the scope for informal learning within children's everyday
lives; the informal acquisition of literacy and numeracy; the role
of parents and others in informal learning; and, how children
proactively develop their own learning agendas. Their investigation
provides not only an insight into the powerful and effective nature
of informal learning but also presents some fundamental challenges
to many of the assumptions underpinning educational theory. This
book will be of interest to education practitioners, researchers
and all parents, whether their children are in or out of school,
offering as it does fascinating insights into the nature of
children's learning.
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