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Book Review - Guerrilla Learning - Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver |
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Book ReviewGuerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (2001).
"Start to see learning not as the province of experts but as the province of the family. Learning belongs to you , not to schools and government administrators. It's a function of human wonder and curiosity and love for the world." "[Learning] happens at home. It happens when children are read bedtime stories, and in dinner-table conversations, and on family vacations... We're all 'homeschooling,' all the time ". "Interests are not arbitrary or capricious. They are intrinsically related to a child's special, irreplaceable vision and gifts." "[School] doesn't have to define who your child or your family are. It doesn't have to be the only, or even the main, source of your child's education." "School can be a poor master but a good servant." After an inspiring set of chapters that lay out the Guerrilla Learning philosophy, Llewellyn and Silver introduce "Five Keys to Guerrilla Learning:" Opportunity, Timing, Interest, Freedom, and Support. They spend a chapter on each one, developing the ideas and issues that surround each key and providing activity ideas and resources for further reading. For example, in the chapter on the Opportunity key, the authors discuss different sources of educational opportunity, and then provide activity suggestions related to reading, writing, arts, math, and several other subjects. The activity ideas are general (not step-by-step, cook-book type) and few are new, but there are some surprising twists. To me, the five keys seem a little muddy as categories, and are more like a rhetorical device to organize the presentation. You find yourself thinking, "Now, would that fall under Support or Opportunity?"
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