What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want to do rather than what others think they ought to do? What happens when they have the time and the opportunity to explore the world in their own ways? Nancy Wallace's first book, Better Than School, was the story of how the Wallaces fought for and won the right to teach their children, Vita and Ishmael. Now, in Child's Work, Nancy looks at what happened in the years that followed; how Vita and Ishmael explored and became skilled at music, mathematics, art, and writing, and how Nancy learned to trust their idiosyncratic ways of learning and to respond seriously and helpfully to the choices they made. Child's Work is about how children make knowledge and understadning out of what is available around them, and as such it is an important book for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in learning from and about children.
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From Scientific American
You will discover incredible respect for the individual ways in which children learn. Wallace is an important voice to consider whether you are homeschooling or not.
From The New Yorker
An important book for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in learning from and about children
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The homeschooling book which is most respectful of children.,
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This review is from: Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously (Paperback)
Nancy Wallace's book has been in print for almost 10 years now, and there have been dozens of homeschooling books since - how-to's, diatribes, anthologies, talk with the experts, etc. - but there is no book which is more respectful of the intellgience and in-born learning quests of children. Almost uniquely, she looks at "homeschooling" (a label which does not do justice to the book) from the perspective of the children themselves, rather than from that of overanxious, or overeager, parents. Belongs in every home library dealing with "alternative education".
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A must-read for parents...,
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This review is from: Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously (Paperback)
or anyone else who has contact with children. Nancy Wallace's accounts of how her children have grown and learned without adult interference are inspiring to those of us who wish to follow in her footsteps. This book could serve as a great answer to those who say that children won't make anything of themselves unless they are forced to. The wonderful potential of children is revealed.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read for those who'd oppose Home-education.,
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This review is from: Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously (Paperback)
An honest, well written assesment of what children are capable of achieving on their own without any coercion or interference from the adults in their lives. It thoughtfully explains how children, left to their own devices, are capable of learning about what ever subject they chose inspite of what some professional educators would have you think.
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