
Teach Your Own
The John Holt Book of Home Schooling
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 17. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-7382-0694-3 (ISBN)
Description
Today more than one and a half million children are being taught at home by their own parents. In this expanded edition of the book that helped launch the whole movement, Pat Farenga has distilled John Holt's timeless understanding of the ways children come to understand the world and added up-to-the-moment practical advice. Rather than proposing that parents turn their homes into miniature schools, Holt and Farenga demonstrate how ordinary parents can help children grow as social, active learners. Chapters on living with children, "serious play," children and work, and learning difficulties will be of interest to all parents, whether home schooling or not, as well as to teachers. This new edition is supplemented with financial and legal advice as well as a guide to cooperating with schools and facing the common objections to home schooling. Teach Your Own not only has all the vital information necessary to be the bible for parents teaching their own children, it also conveys John Holt's wise and passionate belief in every child's ability to learn from the world that has made his wonderful books into enduring classics.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7382-0694-3 (9780738206943)
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Additional editions

John Holt | Pat Farenga
Teach Your Own
The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home
E-Book
09/2021
Grand Central Publishing
€9.99
Available for download

E-Book
03/2009
Grand Central Publishing
€9.99
Available for download
Persons
John Holt (1927-1985), one of this country's leading educational and social critics, was the author of ten influential books which have been translated into fourteen languages. Known both as a passionate reformer and as "the gentle voice of reason" (Life magazine), John Holt offers insights into the nature of learning that are more relevant today than ever before. Pat Farenga, writer and president of Holt Associates, lectures all over the country and is the father of three home-schooled daughters.