Free Range Education: How Home Education Works

By Terri Dowty

This is an essential handbook for families considering or just beginning home schooling. Free Range Education is full of family stories, burning questions, humor, tips, practical steps, practical advice, and resources (mostly UK).

You are already your child's main educator, and in this invaluable guidebook other home educators show how it can work for you as well. They provide:

-Answer questions concerning how home-schooled children can socialize; money issues; exams; and time off for parents themselves
-Inspiring accounts and stories from graduates of home-schooling - their jobs, training, and lives
-Resources, contacts, networks, and websites
-A friendly overview of the legalities involved in home education (though it deals mostly with UK laws, it will also prove useful to parents in North America and elsewhere).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903458072
• ISBN13: 9781903458075
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Hawthorn Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring - may change your entire view on education!

This new book outlines the differing philosphies of about 20 different British home educating families. Not written to any formula, but with enthusiasm and humour: each family describes briefly the reasons for opting to educate at home, and gives some idea of what they typically do. Many would be classed as 'unschoolers' in the USA.As well as the main chapters, there are short reports and snippets written by home educated children and teenagers, and a wide variety of quotations from famous people through the ages, giving their view on education in general. There are also FAQ pages answering - among others -questions about socialising, general resources and science facilities.The final chapter is a comprehensive overview of the legal system of home education in the UK. Anyone who has ever considered home education should read this book!