Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
Let your daughter read her library books instead of finishing her homework . Ask your eleven-year-old's beloved third grade teacher to comment on his poetry. Invite a massage therapist to dinner because your daughter wants to go to massage school instead of college. Give your child the freedom to pursue his interests, develop her strengths, cultivate self-discipline, and discover the joy of learning throughout life.
If you've ever felt that your child wasn't flourishing in school or simply needs something the professionals aren't supplying, you're ready to become a "guerrilla educator." Revolutionary and inspiring, Guerrilla Learning explains what's wrong (and what's useful) about our traditional schools and shows you how to take charge of your family's education to raise thinking, creative young people despite the constraints of traditional schooling.
Filled with fun and exciting exercises and projects to do with children of all ages, this remarkable approach to childhood, education, and life will help you release your child's innate abilities and empower him or her in the wider world that awaits beyond the school walls.
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Book details
- Author
- Grace Llewellyn, Amy Silver
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 222
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Family & Relationships › Education
- Topics
- homeschooling · alternative education · self-directed learning · lifelong learning · child development · parenting · creativity · self-discipline
- ISBN-13
- 9780471349600 (Paperback)9781620456781 (Hardcover)
About the author
GRACE LLEWELLYN is an American educator, author, and publisher, and the founder of Not Back to School Camp, established in 1996 for unschooled teenagers. Her books include Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School, Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, and Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School Tell Their Own Stories.
Llewellyn holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and taught school for three years before writing The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, published through her own imprint, Lowry House Publishers.
When she’s not writing, Llewellyn serves as director of Not Back to School Camp. Much of her work centers on self-directed learning and alternatives to conventional schooling.
Grace lives in Eugene, Oregon.