Shikshantar - The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development

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sakhi's family newsletter

october 12-17, 2005 at van utsav (invite)

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unschooling story from sarita and ganesh

families learning together newsletter - issue 1

co-learning with kanku : some experiences from 2006 (in english) and (in hindi)

families learning together newsletter - issue 2

Resources for Families
Experimenting in their Homes and Communities

WEBSITES

Families Unschoolers Network: support for self-directed learning – www.unschooling.org

Re-cognition: an in-depth look at different paradigms of knowing and re-connecting with natural and authentic learning - www.re-cognition.org

Learning Freely Network: a network of natural learners, unschoolers and other autonomous learners - www.learningfreely.net

Path to Freedom: resources on permaculture, bio-diesel, water recycling, handmade crafts, eco-building, and much more – www.pathtofreedom.com

Birth India: an independent coalition of midwives, doctors, and individuals dedicated to promoting the benefits and best practices related to natural childbirth – www.birthindia.org

House of Strauss: resources on conscious parenting; body, mind and spirit unity; nature cure; alternative therapies; etc. – www.houseofstrauss.co.uk

Alfie Kohn: offering ways beyond competition, rewards and punishments – www.alfiekohn.org

Diggers and Dreamers: a guide to communal living, cooperative housing, eco-villages, etc. in the UK - www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk

Self-Sufficient-ish: offers practical ways to approach self-sufficiency in urban areas - www.selfsufficientish.com

John Taylor Gatto: ideas from one of the leading challengers of modern schooling – www.johntaylorgatto.com

Teach Your Own - Pat Farenga - continuing and expanding John Holt's work on Growing without Schooling - www.patfarenga.com and www.holtgws.com and www.learninginourownway.com

Adbusters: critiques of mass media and the market and insights into recovering our creative agency – www.adbusters.org

Living and Raw Foods: recipes, articles, on-line discussions, on natural, uncooked, pure food energy! – www.living-foods.com

Byron Child: articles on conscious parenting and healthy families – www.byronchild.com

Beofen-TV: working on natural ways of living as a family in Israel - www.beofen-tv.co.il/cgi-bin/chiq.pl

The Unschooling Conference:learning happens all the time! - www.unschoolingconference.com

Vaccine Choice: offers information to make intelligent choices - http://www.vaccinechoice.org/

The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning: brings together an international community of scholars exploaring learner-centered democratic approaches as well as self-directed learning - JUAL

Parental Intelligence Newsletter: carries a variety of articles on unschooling and parenting - http://www.parental-intelligence.com

Jindal Nature Cure Institute: features ideas and practices in natureopathy and yoga - http://www.inysonline.org/new-index.html

ARTICLES

Cell phone dangers for children

The Parenting Taboo - by Michael Mendizza

Creating Learning Communities - by Anna Jahns

Education - Is It Our Right or Responsibility? - by Anna Jahns

Parents as Educators, Learning for Life - by Grace Chapman

Regaining Sanity - by Anna Jahns

Yellow/Red - by Sammy Kunina

FILMS

NorthStar: Self-Directed Learning for Teens - Part 1 and Part 2