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Unschooling is a practice of self-driven informal learning characterized by a lesson-free and curriculum-free implementation of homeschooling. [1] Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, under the belief that the more personal learning is, the more meaningful, well-understood, and therefore useful it is to the child.
The one-child family has long been a stand-in for the best hopes and worst outcomes for the human race. In 1968, a Stanford entomologist named Paul Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, self-published a ...
The Family Book is a 2003 children's picture book written and illustrated by Todd Parr that details the daily lives of all kinds of families. [1] Each unique family structure is depicted with vivid illustrations that complement the book’s themes of family diversity and inclusivity. [ 2 ]
Woodrow has written more than thirty books for children. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Okemos, Michigan, a suburb of East Lansing. [2] [3] Allan attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then became an advertising copywriter in Detroit, Michigan.
The book takes the form of a series of dialogues between Skynner, playing the role of therapist, and Cleese, who adopts the role of inquisitive lay person. The book was also serialised as a six-part radio series for the UK BBC station BBC Radio 4, with each episode being 30 minutes long. This was also in the form of a convivial conversation ...
Kató Lomb, one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, [84] spoke more than ten languages fluently and she learned them by gleaning their rules and vocabulary from books (mostly novels), as she described in her book Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (2008), originally published in Hungarian in four editions (1970, 1972, 1990, 1995).
Ungifted is a 2012 children's novel by Gordon Korman, which contains 31 chapters and 280 pages.The story is told with chapters of alternating perspectives. The plot revolves around Donovan Curtis, a troublemaker who gets wrapped up in a major prank gone wrong.
Schooled is a 2007 coming-of-age young adult novel by Canadian author Gordon Korman.. The novel follows a young boy, Capricorn "Cap" Anderson raised in an isolated hippie commune who is sent to live with foster parents and attend public school following his grandmother's accident.