Research Catalog

Title

Deschooling our lives / edited by Matt Hern ; foreword by Ivan Illich with Aaron Falbel.

Publication

Gabriola Island, BC ; Philadelphia, PA : New Society Publishers, c1996.

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Additional Authors

Hern, Matt

Description

x, 150 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Education > United States
• Educational sociology > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-150).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Kids, community, and self-design: an introduction / Matt Hern -- pt. 1. Looking back : some of the roots of modern deschooling. On education / Leo Tolstoy ; The intimate and the ultimate / Vinoba Bhave ; Deschooling society / Ivan Illich ; Instead of education / John Holt -- pt. 2. Living fully : more recent analysis. Sweet land of liberty / Grace Llewellyn ; The public school nightmare: why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? / John Taylor Gatto ; Challenging the popular wisdom: what can families do? / Geraldine Lyn-Piluso, Gus Lyn-Piluso and Duncan Clarke ; Losing an eye: some thoughts on real safety / Matt Hern ; Learning? Yes, of course. Education? No, thanks / Aaron Falbel.
• Part 3. Just say no : staying home. Dinosaur homeschool / Donna Nichols-White ; Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense / David Guterson ; Doing something very different: growing without schooling / Susannah Sheffer ; Thinking about play, practice, and the deschooling of music / Mark Douglas ; Homeschooling as a single parent / Heather Knox ; Learning as a lifestyle / Heidi Priesnitz ; Deschooling and parent Involvement in education AllPIE -- a learning network / Seth Rockmuller and Katharine Houk -- pt. 4. Schools that ain't : places that work. Summerhill School / Zoe Readhead ; A history of the Albany Free School and community / Chris Mercogliano ; A school for today / Mimsy Sadofsky ; A wonder story told by a young tree / Ilana cameron ; Windsor House / Meghan Hughes and Jim Carrico ; Liberating education / Satish Kumar.

ISBN

• 0865713413
• 0865713421 (pbk.)
• 1550922823 (bound)
• 1550922831 (pbk.)

LCCN

cn^95911081^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library