Natural Curiosity: Educating and Nurturing Our Children at Home

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Author:
Carne, Lisa
Number of Pages:
176
ISBN-13:
9781785920332
ISBN-10:
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06/21/2016
Publisher:
Singing Dragon
Natural Curiosity: Educating and Nurturing Our Children at Home - ISBN: 9781785920332
Natural Curiosity is a warm and contemplative insight into one family's experience of moving from mainstream schooling to home education, and learning through the lens of nature and natural history. Since becoming 'unschooled', the two children have thrived on a diet of self-directed play and learning, amassing life skills, confidence, responsibility, and a vast array of knowledge along the way. This thoughtful book touches upon important themes in education and environmentalism, such as children's rights in schooling, the use and place of technology in learning, and the absence of the natural world in mainstream education. It gives a considered, balanced view of home schooling, interspersed with entertaining tales including constructing life-sized mammoth skeletons and living for a day as historically accurate Vikings. It offers an understanding of how this type of education works and what inspires the choice to pursue it.