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Learning Without School
Home Educating Families Share a Day in their Lives

Edited by Beverley Paine

A unique glimpse into how Australian families educate their children at home.

ISBN 1876651202
92 pages, 210mm x 290mm, illustrated.

AUS$20.00

Although home education isn't a new phenomenon – and is, in fact, millennia older than the tradition of school education – it is arousing intense curiosity among parents and young people desperate to find satisfying and successful solutions to the perennial problems experienced in the classroom.

If you…
… are thinking about taking your children out of the school system,
… want to avoid school altogether,
… are curious about how homeschooling parents balance relationships, work and leisure commitments, manage the housework – and – educate their children at home,
… already homeschool but are looking for fresh ideas,
… are interested in other homeschooling approaches,
… or perhaps simply long to be a ‘fly on the wall’ and see how other families organise learning at home…
…this book is for you.

Explore how different families journey along this liberating educational path. Discover the secrets to homeschooling success as you read this wonderful collection of real days and weeks showing a wide spectrum of tried and tested approaches to home education. Over thirty articulate and intimate ‘snapshots’ of everyday family life capture the unique essence and flexible nature of Australian home education.

"When first introduced to the concept of home education most people think of mum standing by a desk, child with bent head, busily writing or reading… Home educated children may have desks, and parents do teach lessons from books, but homeschooling is much more than ‘school-at-home’, as the experiences shared by the many families in this book demonstrate.

I’m always astounded by, and grateful for, the willingness of homeschooling families to share their experiences with others. It doesn’t matter how long we’ve been teaching our children at home, the urge to see how other families ‘do it’ is forever strong. Our reasons are many: we may yearn for fresh ideas, practical tips and/or reassurance. Robust support networks have grown to answer this need. They provide an enduring sense of companionship among homeschooling families. It is with this sentiment that these articulate, and enthusiastically given, ‘snapshots’ of daily homeschooling life are offered by the families in this book.

Reading their contributions was one of the real pleasures of working on Learning Without School. I am indebted to Kim, Emily, Beth, Sonia, Mandy, Sonia, Kirsten and their families, and the Chapman, Moore, Collins, McNeill, Cooper, Coleman, Heath, Tuckerman. Cordes, Jacob, Collins, Delpol, Harding, van Rijn, Hardy, Tunes, Shobbrook, Herriman, Davidson, Savins, Whittaker families, for making time from their busy homeschooling lives to help with this project. A huge thank you goes to the children; Jade, Ilana, Michelle, Thomas, and Elizabeth and to all those that sent in photographs and beautiful artwork.

I am extremely grateful to those many friends whose contributions took less tangible form, most often as conversations that gave me the inspiration and confidence to produce this book. And finally, I say a huge thank you to my three wonderful children, April, Roger and Thomas, who, over the years, have taught me most of what I know about the nature of learning, and to my wonderful husband, Robin, for his steadfast support and assistance in bringing Learning Without Schooling to fruition."

Beverley Paine

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What's in this book? Contents...

A Typical Homeschooling Day - Beverley Paine
Learning on the Atherton Tablelands - Grace Chapman
Home Education: A Lifestyle - Belinda Moore
A Friday in September - Karen Collins
My Day - Jade Collins
Monday - Ilana Collins
A Day in our Home Schooling Life - Martina McNeill
A Random Day… - Michelle Cooper
Learning is a Life-long Process… - Cheryl Cooper
A Day in the Life of a Natural Learning Family - Nikki Coleman
Learning From Living - Kim
A Day with Sarah, Simon, David and Caitlin, July 2003 - Sarah Tuckerman
Our Home Schooling Day - The Cordes Family
What Suits Us Best - Michelle Jacob
Simply Just Being - Sue Collins
Natural Learning Works for Us - Lisa Collins
A Typical Week - Kirsten
Learning On-The-Go… - Sharon Delpol
Weaving Learning into Conversation - Louise Wilton
A Typical Day for Jonah and Hanna
What are the boys doing today? - Emily
Following Rouan’s Interests - Audrey van Rijn
Apprentices to Life - Jo Heath
From School-at-Home to Home-school - Beth
A Teenage Perspective - Elizabeth Hardy
Finding the Best Approach - Nicki Tunes
An Inspired Education - Peela Shobbrook
Living a Beautiful Life - Sonia Fluke
A Healthy Alternative - Vanessa Whittaker
Learning Naturally:Different Every Day - The Herriman Family
No Two Days Ever The Same! - Fiona Davidson
Tuesday, 10th February, 2004 - Mandy
No Such Thing as a ‘Typical Day’ - Marina Savins
A Learning Journey Ends… - Beverley Paine
- 1986… the early years
- 1995… a visit from the grandparents
- 1998… natural learning – the wait is worth it!
- 2004… The End: Thomas and his last home educated days

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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.