Recordings: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is athttps://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-09-11.1704.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 and a portable .mp3 recording is athttp://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/patfarenga.mp3.
Mightybell Discussion and Resource Space: https://mightybell.com/spaces/8a275ee029708258
Pat Farenga and his wife have three girls, ages 23, 20, and 17. In addition to writing for GWS for twenty years, he has written many articles and book chapters for publications as diverse as Mothering magazine, Paths of Learning magazine, Home Education Magazine, The Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society and The Encyclopedia of School Administration. He has also published and edited several popular books about homeschooling including his own book, The Beginner’s Guide To Homeschooling. Farenga’s recent work includes a cassette tape, A History of Homeschooling and How You Can Become Part of It (Tape one of The Singing Turtle Homeschool Starter Kit, 2002) and a chapter in A Parent’s Guide To Homeschooling (Mars Publishing, 2002). His most recent book isTeach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Perseus, May 2003). Farenga wrote the article about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, due in Fall, 2009.
Farenga also appears on local and national television and radio shows as a homeschooling expert; he has appeared on The Today Show, The Voice of America, NPR's The Merrow Report, and CNN's Parenting Today. Farenga has been quoted as an expert on homeschooling many times in the national media. Farenga has addressed audiences about homeschooling and the work of John Holt throughout the United States, Canada, England, and Italy.
Farenga now works as a writer, speaker, and education consultant. Visitwww.patfarenga.com for the latest writing and information about Pat's work
Mightybell Discussion and Resource Space: https://mightybell.com/spaces/8a275ee029708258
Pat Farenga and his wife have three girls, ages 23, 20, and 17. In addition to writing for GWS for twenty years, he has written many articles and book chapters for publications as diverse as Mothering magazine, Paths of Learning magazine, Home Education Magazine, The Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society and The Encyclopedia of School Administration. He has also published and edited several popular books about homeschooling including his own book, The Beginner’s Guide To Homeschooling. Farenga’s recent work includes a cassette tape, A History of Homeschooling and How You Can Become Part of It (Tape one of The Singing Turtle Homeschool Starter Kit, 2002) and a chapter in A Parent’s Guide To Homeschooling (Mars Publishing, 2002). His most recent book isTeach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Perseus, May 2003). Farenga wrote the article about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, due in Fall, 2009.Farenga also appears on local and national television and radio shows as a homeschooling expert; he has appeared on The Today Show, The Voice of America, NPR's The Merrow Report, and CNN's Parenting Today. Farenga has been quoted as an expert on homeschooling many times in the national media. Farenga has addressed audiences about homeschooling and the work of John Holt throughout the United States, Canada, England, and Italy.
Farenga now works as a writer, speaker, and education consultant. Visitwww.patfarenga.com for the latest writing and information about Pat's work
talk:
work with children or on children
teach your own, john holt
how children fail, john holt
how you treat a child more important than how you teach them
illich was a huge changer for him.. ended up moving to live near him.. escape from childhood.. john holt, after spending time with illich
instead of education... john holt, getting away from compulsory schools
schools are great.. just get rid of compulsion
1976 - growing without school
john didn't have his own children,, and didn't study ed
steve - did that give him the objective (non fatigued) vision.. more a grandparent take
holt thought not being trained in ed was one of his strengths..
same as sugata mitra - he was a physicist
2 mill homeschoolers, 2% of school pop
more homeschoolers than montessori and waldorf et al combined
we don't give kids enough space to play
people are social, they learn from being with people
but not grouped in classrooms with like age
the whole social nature of a child's life - play - has been sabotaged by institution of school
steve's chore issue has been agency
grandparent piece
the way you get good at making choices.. agency.. is by having a lot of choices to make
pat's daughter didn't take any math, then later when found she needed it.. took 6 months to catch up to her college class.
steve - parent that had never asked her son what he wanted to do.
the institution gets so big it causes the problems.. illich
small is beautiful
creates more jobs for teachers.. but requires openess - that not everyone is certified teacher.. not all classrooms have same age..
pisa?
the institution gets so big it causes the problems.. illich
small is beautiful
creates more jobs for teachers.. but requires openess - that not everyone is certified teacher.. not all classrooms have same age..
pisa?