How Children Learn at Home

by Harriet Pattison and Alan Thomas

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826479995
• ISBN13: 9780826479990
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.6"