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Unschooling By John Holt with later additions by Patrick Farenga (This is reprinted from Chapter 3 of Teach Your Own) NOTE: To learn about the laws and regulations about homeschooling in your state, check with your local or state homeschooling groups as they will likely have the most up-to-date information. You can locate general legal information from this list, and find support with this list; both lists are maintained by Anne Zeiss.—PF People, especially educators, who hear me [John Holt, 1981] talk about homeschooling, raise certain objections so often that it is worth answering them here. Since our countries are so large and our people are from so many different kinds of backgrounds (this was said most recently to me by a Canadian) don't we need some kind of social glue to make us stick together, to give us a sense of unity in spite of all our differences, and aren't compulsory public schools the easiest and best places to make this glue? About needing the glue, he's absolutely right. ...
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Francais interactif CIEE - work, travel, study and exchange programs for students, teachers, employers, schools, universities, and families | CIEE - Council on International Educational Exchange Learn a Language | Free Online Language Learning The Inside-Out Center - International Headquarters of The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program Joyous Lessons: Learning Languages the Charlotte Mason Way - Volume 1 and Francois Gouin (Part 1) "There is hardly another civilised nation so dull in acquiring foreign tongues as we English of the present time; but, probably, the fault lies rather in the way we set about the study than in any natural incapacity for languages." (Mason, Home Education, p. 301) "Let us state it as impressively as we can: the incapacity of the child is the incapacity of the teacher and the defectiveness of the method. We are getting ready to start our new school year next week, and I'm also going through the last few sections of Volume 1 of Home Education. Since I have chosen a less-common language for our home study, I have the challenge each year of hunting down appropriate materials for my little Italian-learners. The quote at the top, from this section of Volume 1, really encourages me to really take a thoughtful approach to our language lessons. So why the change? But first--a look at the Gouin method: :: Seeing children as persons. :: The importance of visualization. :: Learning in context. versus
Participate Participate AFS Intercultural Programs>Participate The AFS Experience AFS & Exchange Programs AFS & Volunteerism AFS & Intercultural Learning AFS History & Archives © AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. Joyous Lessons: Learning Languages the Charlotte Mason Way - Parents' Review, Programmes, and Miss Mason Herself (Part 2) In Part 1, I went through Francois Gouin's suggestions regarding foreign language study. As we know from the programmes, Miss Mason did use his series in her schools, and she approved of many of his methods--particularly in the ways they took a sharp detour from the contemporary approach. Just to touch on a few points from my last post, I think we can take from Gouin some basic principles of language study for young children; for example, :: an emphasis on listening and speaking before reading and writing :: the use of copywork and recitation to cement knowledge :: the use of narration and visual memory to assimilate the language :: learning in the context of sentences and series of sentences rather than simple words :: the delay of grammatical explanations and rules :: the importance of accent and conversational ability "A slight amount of gesture and action will help to give life and stimulate imagination, but to go through the whole series of actions is apt to make the lesson ridiculous.
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